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I disagree. I've been working my ass off and I've been well paid. Although I'm tired of 12 hour days for the past ten years.
The problem the world is getting smaller and smaller. Thirty years ago if you wanted to create a new product from scratch - say a bottle opener or a lighter - you had to do it locally. Flying to China to find someone to do it at one fifth the price of what it can be done in the US wasn't really possible then. Now with the Internet you don't even have to leave your house and you can line up everything within a few hours.
Same thing with call centers. I used to be a telephone operator making $70k a year, which I thought was funny because we were so over paid. Now you pick up the phone and your getting someone in India. Work as an accountant? Same thing. Pretty soon you won't hire an accountant in the US, you'll hire someone from India.
In the near future, any job that can be done online or in another country will be done in another country. Accounting, programming, any kind of customer support, etc... The only businesses that will survive in the US will be the kinds of trades that can only be done in the US - such as building houses, repair work, etc.
We are so fucked.
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