We have had 40 years of trying to move the Nation towards a FIRE economy, with an accompanying subsidy of the vices of the underclass. You might as well write the inauguration speech of the second Obama term; you know, the one that lasts twenty years?
People need productive things to do. It is our nature. Trading stocks is not productive labor. Practicing law as it is done today is not productive labor.
Remember that John Galt built things.
What are we talking about here --do we want people in factories because you're saying it's 'natural' or do we want to actually manufacture things? We don't need more people in the factories no matter how happy factory smoke is supposed to make them. They just get in the way. Maybe you could set up some kind of factory theme park where they could go and get it worked out off to one side.
Trading stocks is not productive labor.
You know very well that virtually all US factory ownership is incorporated. No stock traders no factories.
Well said....all true. When I was young we had decent factory jobs for the lower to middle class. When these jobs were sent abroad what are these guys going to do? Become mortgage brokers pushing sub prime mortgages?
You might as well write the inauguration speech of the second Obama term; you know, the one that lasts twenty years?
People need productive things to do. It is our nature. Trading stocks is not productive labor. Practicing law as it is done today is not productive labor.
Remember that John Galt built things.
So did the Hank Reardon of Atlas Shrugged
Henry Rearden Henry (also known as "Hank") is one of the central characters in Atlas Shrugged. Like many of Rand's capitalist characters, he is a self-made man who started as an ordinary worker, showed talent, founded Rearden Steel and made it the most important steel company of the US
Men need productive and masculine things to do.
Most men don't do well in offices
Women dominate this kind of service economy and have not suffered as much in this recession
A lot more men have been layed off or let go due to lack of work