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To: clamper1797
"4. If they can't adapt, screw 'em (i.e., let them eat cake)"

What else do you tell telephone switchboard operators, except to adapt?!

Their jobs have been replaced by computers. What, you don't want them to adapt?!

What sort of paralyzed economy do you want to create and then suffer to live in?

104 posted on 04/09/2004 2:53:44 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
You tend to run a little fast, so lets take it one step at a time. No one is suggesting that we preserve telephone operators positions, IT jobs, or anything else. But, a prudent economy would ensure that we are constantly building and upgrading our jobs base (IE individual opportunities). That means actively promoting the development of a healthy jobs inventory through incentives, trade barriers, and outright capital manipulation if need be.

If you want people to buy into a system; then you have to give them the means to participate in it. If that is no longer possible; because all labor has to conform to a global rate, then we are going to have a real problem here, because the cost of living in the US is so much higher. Once the economic and political avenues are closed, people are going to start taking it to the streets. Whistling in the dark about the theoretical benefits of a non-existent global market might give you comfort; but, it also ignores the problem.
108 posted on 04/09/2004 3:21:52 PM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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