[ARCADIA]

If your work isn't worth any more than the pay the Chinese worker gets, upon what basis should I and others pay you more?

Allow me to suggest sovereignty and the stable state. We may not have much use for manual labor, or the industrial worker; but, have you considered that they may not have much use for you. The country does better when it can create the kind of economy that makes maximum use of everyone's talents, and that to me would include a significant amount of manufacturing, research, and national self-reliance.

[muir_redwoods]

"The country does better when it can create the kind of economy that makes maximum use of everyone's talents..."

How different is that from "To each according to his needs and from each according to his ability"?