twall
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Boy, JD's parts post really fired me up.......So, I'm going to rant a tad here, too - since what I have to say isn't directly related to his thread. Feel free to chew me out for my opinions if you like...
What exactly is this "new service-based economy" supposed to consist of? People going to college so they can be data entry clerks, and make minimum wage, because the market for that is so saturated? Are we ALL supposed to be 'professionals'? What about auto mechanics, factory workers, machinists, small farmers, and a plethora of others supposed to do? Just fade away? "Re-educate" themselves to fit into a college-educated crowd? Should we go to college and owe thousands, so we know the physics behind the grill on which we're flipping burgers?
Don't we still need someone to till the land, grow crops, build things, make machines, service machines, manufacture things that the quality thereof is unmatched? Why, all of a sudden, are people who work with their hands considered second-class citizens?
It's NOT 'all of a sudden'. This has been going on for 20 or more years. We've been moving away from people working with their hands to working with their brains. The former actually makes a physical something (something of value) and the latter only tells the former what to build. Now, they're tellin people in other countries what to build, because they work cheaper. Not that we don't need engineers, and managers, and data entry, etc......but we DON'T need to saturate that market. We need far more people with 'street smarts' in the workplace.
All about the freakin almighty dollar. Make the top that much richer at the expense of the rest of us. Really fries me. This isn't political, either. It's just how our society in general is changing, and I don't think that change is any good at all.
I'll stop now. :frown:
What exactly is this "new service-based economy" supposed to consist of? People going to college so they can be data entry clerks, and make minimum wage, because the market for that is so saturated? Are we ALL supposed to be 'professionals'? What about auto mechanics, factory workers, machinists, small farmers, and a plethora of others supposed to do? Just fade away? "Re-educate" themselves to fit into a college-educated crowd? Should we go to college and owe thousands, so we know the physics behind the grill on which we're flipping burgers?
Don't we still need someone to till the land, grow crops, build things, make machines, service machines, manufacture things that the quality thereof is unmatched? Why, all of a sudden, are people who work with their hands considered second-class citizens?
It's NOT 'all of a sudden'. This has been going on for 20 or more years. We've been moving away from people working with their hands to working with their brains. The former actually makes a physical something (something of value) and the latter only tells the former what to build. Now, they're tellin people in other countries what to build, because they work cheaper. Not that we don't need engineers, and managers, and data entry, etc......but we DON'T need to saturate that market. We need far more people with 'street smarts' in the workplace.
All about the freakin almighty dollar. Make the top that much richer at the expense of the rest of us. Really fries me. This isn't political, either. It's just how our society in general is changing, and I don't think that change is any good at all.
I'll stop now. :frown:
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