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Originally Posted by Mutt
It's bs, it doesn't matter if we have more smart people, the jobs will still be going offshore to those with similar degrees who work cheaper.
I'm old and I remember being in high school and in my geography class the topic of 'globalization' and also robots/automation taught/discussed and I remember asking myself if all these jobs that were around 25 years ago were going to be replaced by offshore workers and robotics what the hell were all these people going to do to make a good living? And the teacher I remember talking about how this was a great thing, how we'd only be working 4 day work weeks(making the same amount of money), how Americans would be re-trained/educated for different types of jobs, new technology. We have our new technology and a ton of those jobs are being farmed out too and not everybody can be an adult webmaster or an Ebay power seller.
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I agree, greenspan's line is exactly the kind of manipulative rhetoric we can expect from the plutoocrats and the corporatists, blaming americans for the lack of jobs when their policies and theft is the primary cause.
However, like I said to the other guy, THEY WON, WE LOST, so we are still going to have to figure out some solutions, because they won't.
Your teachers then were not wrong about the possibilities, they however did not understand what the plutocrats were doing and going to do. Some 30 years ago we turned down the path of plutocrat rule, taking the easy road of short term pleasure and trusting the rich to guide the country.
The rich stole the future, and we let them do it. Now we pay the price.
But, the rich are unreachable and untouchable and they will not help. We can't get revenge and we can't get the wealth back.
We have to smarten up and solve this on our own.