America Is Preparing Kids For The Future As Servants

EconomyInCrisis.org ^ | 12/21/06 | Thomas Heffner

[A. Pole]

Don’t think that agriculture won’t get outsourced. I can’t think of any particular reason why not.

This process cannot go for ever. Exchange equilibrium of material goods will be restored, one way or another. Only very small countries can live by services and even Swiss make watches, chocolate, dairy and many other physical products.

So far US agriculture is protected by government, it might survive until time of correction.

[massadvj]

Go with your instincts. However, nobody in any field has a stable career anymore. Especially in medicine, things change so quickly you will be spending your career continually educating yourself as to the latest techniques and newest technologies. To be able to succeed you will need to be able to adapt. That is my point.

If you don't believe me or think differently, then go with your instincts. I am merely giving you the same advise I give my student advisees. Some take it, some don't. No big deal. It's just my opinion.

[A. Pole]

Go with your instincts.

Putting aside our private concrete lives, the general question is how much instability the whole society or culture can take before things fall apart or order is imposed by force.

[Dat]

I think you should seek professional help. Seriously. It’s a big jump to say that fewer government regulations will cause the U.S. to turn into Nazi Germany.

[highlander_UW]

In less than 20 years since America put in place some of its most self-devastating policy decisions (NAFTA, WTO, CAFTA, etc.), this country will have almost completely converted from a self-sufficient sovereign state, capable of manufacturing what it needs to sustain and protect itself, to a country of servants – serfs, working at the behest of foreign employers or engaged in the sales, marketing, and distribution of foreign-made goods – working at their discretion, for wages they determine, and forced to pay their prices for needed goods. This is the definition of a servant.

This is the liberal utopia they're working towards. If everyone is a serf (except the liberal leaders, of course), then society has achieved equality and won the class war dem politicians are always going on about.

[massadvj]

The forces propelling us toward a faster-paced, faster-evolving civilization are irretrievable and unstoppable, even by martial law. The Chinese even see that. The iron curtain fell in large part because information cannot be contained between national borders. The global market diminishes the power and sovereignty of national governments and is therefore a good thing, IMHO.

But what I think does not matter so much as the reality that this train is moving and will not be stopped. It is far bigger than government, any government, including the US government. The US GDP is but 20 percent of the world economy.

The macro environment is what it is. In business we assume it is beyond our control. So we attempt to predict it, and manipulate those variables we do control so that we benefit from the anticipated changes. My suggestion to any young person today is to stop making value judgments about the macro environment. All change presents opportunity. Welcome the change, anticipate the changes coming next, and figure out how to benefit from them.

The best thing you can do for your society is to prosper.

[The Duke]

I think maybe the American worker has been a slave since American business became the nation's tax collector. Consider that if you work for a corporation that collects and pays into the tax system, that this is effectively no different than the corporation renting you from the government.

And you can't rent out what you don't own.

I think we've been chattel for a long time.