Posted on 02/05/2017 1:37:59 AM PST by TigerClaws
Interesting. Do you have examples of nations failing due to failure to adopt new technologies? If so, please provide them along with the new technologies they failed to adopt.
The reason why we are not seeing dirt cheap prices for durable goods imported from the 3rd world is labor is not a real big component in the cost of durable goods. The middle men make all the money.
We are destroying the economy for the lower third of the county to save 5% on the retail prices. This is suicide.
Yeah that’s true. That’s the only good thing about our manufacturing leaving here. Union jobs went with it.
Evan at its peak union membership in the manufacturing sector was only 23%.
Oh yeah, that’s right. For some strange reason wars seem to fix a lot of economic problems. We had a big boom after World War II, fixing the depression. I never have figured out where the money comes from to support the war effort.
Really? Wonder why they seemed to have power over private businesses. Maybe it was the media coverage making it seem bigger than it was.
“Interesting. Do you have examples of nations failing due to failure to adopt new technologies? If so, please provide them along with the new technologies they failed to adopt.”
The most striking examples are nations that failed to develop or adopt military technology and thereby were defeated in wars against an opponent with more advanced technologies.
The best example is the Battle of Gravelines where the British developed faster more powerful, more defensible and better armed ships than the Spanish.
The American Civil War provides an example of one society that adopted industrialism against a society that maintained their agricultural based economy.
Not “unexplained beer injury”? Too bad.
I do note that Spain did not cease to exist and still does to this day. I’ll also note that insofar as technology, the former Confederacy was not lacking in this regard. Submarines? Confederates first. Ironclads? Confederates first. No problem with technology or innovation. What it lacked was manufacturing capacity, and it lacked capital.
So do you have any examples of this in the private sector, which is the context in which you made your odd remark?
The auto industry is high profile and is also heavily unionized contrary to the majority of manufacturing which is not. The auto industry has always been scrutinized and used as a whipping boy by the globalists and that image is then projected on the rest of the manufacturing sector thus giving a false picture. I had the same perception until I did my own research. Most manufacturing is done by non union workers that make between $15 and $20/hr.
I remember in my metallurgical engineering classes, a professor saying that in the steel industry, the union workers made more than the engineers. Probably why our steel industry shut down and Japan’s ramped up.
A couple of manufacturing industries, like auto and steel, ruined it for all the other manufacturing industries which were mostly not unionized. The Globalists tricked us into thinking ALL industry was like the steel and auto sector so we’d all get on the Cheap Labor Express. A huge con job.
Interesting. Thank you for sharing your research.
I wasn’t conned, as I’m sure you weren’t. Importing 3rd world poverty at the expense of Americans never made sense.
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