doppelgänger;2671647 said:
No. I disagree. The class war started because technology has allowed globalization to become economically feasible since the end of WWII, crushing the value of American labor in the age of commoditized humanity thus ending the power of unions to organize to protect the rights of people who earn their money by working rather than capital gains.
Where humans aren't worth anything, massive income disparities between capital and working people are inevitable.
I believe you are absolutely right Dopp. There are few exceptions however. Building trades did quite well right up to when the bubble burst in 2008. The reason was because you cannot import buildings.....yet.
The service industry especially anything medical could not be imported as well. The thing is, a Doctor cannot live high on the hog any more on just his or her salary.
They have a steady income, but their real gains have been made from investing their income, not living off of it. They are one of the few workers that still have an income high enough to live a decent life and still invest.
Just being a doctor is not enough to climb the social ladder however. I see the difference between the "haves" doctors and the "have nots" doctors. One rents office space from the other.
Most doctors do not have enough capital on their own, but they band together and start corporations.
Other sucessful people in the States I know are folks that came from India where they have amassed fortunes over seas and came here to invest where the competition has diminished.
The only folks that have been here in the States for generations that are climbing the social ladder are other service industries that are recession proof. Trash collecting is lucrative.
Churches have done well and are still building. They don't need financing.
For the most part, the old school idea of finding a good job and working for someone else is quickly becoming a pipe dream.
I predict the middle class to be gone in another generation. If anyone is middle class in the future, they will be looked upon as rich. It is already starting.
Congress could stop all these free trade agreements with a vote and a stroke of a pen. Our President wants to create jobs. He wanted us to have green jobs.
Solandra is the perfect example of why manufacturing jobs cannot function here any more.
My question is, why are the Liberals in favor of global trade? You would think that Conservatives would want to build factories if we did not compete globally.
Everyone in America would do well to insist that we become a protectionist country in the future.