Greetings good citizen, some of you are filled with dread, others with jubilation. The showman who ran as a Republican and got elected on a 'old school Democratic platform' [which means he lied from the start] is merely a 'bird in a cage', a puppet on a string.
He's promising to 'bring jobs back' but he doesn't have that kind of authority. He can't 'order' formerly US based companies to return their operations to the US...pronto!
He COULD [and probably WILL 'poison the well' by making it 'cost prohibitive' to sell into the US market...but that ship has sailed as well.
When the jobs 'left' here, SO DID THE EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO DO THEM! Worse, the 'old stuff' was used to 'transition' while new, automated, 'idiot-proof' processes were developed. Now the equipment that left here has been MELTED FOR SCRAP!
Reality check number 2 is there is nobody here that knows how to run this equipment anymore. The US has been a manufacturing wasteland for more than forty years. Those of us that used to know how to do what needs doin' are too old to do it!
So we have no equipment AND no 'talent'. For an entire generation people that would have followed their fathers onto the shop floor have become waiters or truck drivers...or stocked shelves with stuff made elsewhere.
Again, the LYING LIARS continue to tell us that 'globalization' was done for us...but in reality it was done TO US!
REMOVE 'Mother Nature's cash register' and it 'costs' no more to feed, clothe and shelter an American than it does a Chinaman. The 'Cheaper there' is and ALWAYS HAS BEEN A 'MENTAL CONSTRUCT'! [AN IDEA for those of you sitting there with your jaw in your lap like a buffalo hit by a stun gun!]
Why is the, er, 'globalized economy' falling apart? Economics 101, NOBODY can't live in an economic wasteland.
We'd all [in our heads anyway] LOVE to live up Maine or maybe get our own 'reality TV show' in Alaska except there are already TOO MANY PEOPLE trying [and failing] to do exactly that. Without modern methodologies, the land just can't support 'free range living' these people are attempting.
Too many people hunting too few resources.
What most of you aren't aware of is what the 'endgame' of globalization is all about.
It is (and always was) about THE CONSOLIDATION OF 'MARKET SHARE'.
Most of you can't wrap your head around what that means, the ongoing 'gobbling up' of competitors so, in the end only a handful remain.
When there isn't another source [like, say razor blades...] your stuck paying what the 'sole survivor' demands.
Even the 'upstarts' pushing to fill the void created by a, er, 'monolith' haven't competed on 'price', they're still in the same insane ballpark as the 'market leader' and the price ISN'T justified...but nobody's doing anything about the defacto monopoly either.
Avis may have 'tried harder' but when it was revealed they were BOTH [Hertz was number one] owned by the SAME CORPORATE PARENT, charges of 'malfeasance' and corporate wrong-doing emerged.
Chances are 'monopolies' have 're-emerged' with the advent of 'supranational corporations' that are 'accountable' to no sovereign nation but themselves. The, er, 'puzzling' razor blade situation is the first to rear it's head. We don't have the 'legal horsepower' to track who, specifically owns what, where on a global basis.
So 'monopolies' will flourish while governments are powerless to rein them in and the 'global economy' continues to suck pond water because the feckless few still have much more than THEY need, the rest of us can go twist in the wind! [Money...we're doing it WRONG!]
Your eyes have glazed over...most of you don't give a crap about this 'economics stuff', you just want somebody to 'fix' this broken system...worse, you DON'T CARE how they do it.
Well, HOW LONG ARE YOU WILLING TO WAIT?
The hope is until after your DEAD...is that soon enough? WTF!
It ain't gonna change UNTIL YOU CHANGE IT!
In the mean time I suggest you buckle up, it's gonna be one hell of a bumpy ride!
It's gonna go sideways...the only question remaining is 'when'?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
He's promising to 'bring jobs back' but he doesn't have that kind of authority. He can't 'order' formerly US based companies to return their operations to the US...pronto!
He COULD [and probably WILL 'poison the well' by making it 'cost prohibitive' to sell into the US market...but that ship has sailed as well.
When the jobs 'left' here, SO DID THE EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO DO THEM! Worse, the 'old stuff' was used to 'transition' while new, automated, 'idiot-proof' processes were developed. Now the equipment that left here has been MELTED FOR SCRAP!
Reality check number 2 is there is nobody here that knows how to run this equipment anymore. The US has been a manufacturing wasteland for more than forty years. Those of us that used to know how to do what needs doin' are too old to do it!
So we have no equipment AND no 'talent'. For an entire generation people that would have followed their fathers onto the shop floor have become waiters or truck drivers...or stocked shelves with stuff made elsewhere.
Again, the LYING LIARS continue to tell us that 'globalization' was done for us...but in reality it was done TO US!
REMOVE 'Mother Nature's cash register' and it 'costs' no more to feed, clothe and shelter an American than it does a Chinaman. The 'Cheaper there' is and ALWAYS HAS BEEN A 'MENTAL CONSTRUCT'! [AN IDEA for those of you sitting there with your jaw in your lap like a buffalo hit by a stun gun!]
Why is the, er, 'globalized economy' falling apart? Economics 101, NOBODY can't live in an economic wasteland.
We'd all [in our heads anyway] LOVE to live up Maine or maybe get our own 'reality TV show' in Alaska except there are already TOO MANY PEOPLE trying [and failing] to do exactly that. Without modern methodologies, the land just can't support 'free range living' these people are attempting.
Too many people hunting too few resources.
What most of you aren't aware of is what the 'endgame' of globalization is all about.
It is (and always was) about THE CONSOLIDATION OF 'MARKET SHARE'.
Most of you can't wrap your head around what that means, the ongoing 'gobbling up' of competitors so, in the end only a handful remain.
When there isn't another source [like, say razor blades...] your stuck paying what the 'sole survivor' demands.
Even the 'upstarts' pushing to fill the void created by a, er, 'monolith' haven't competed on 'price', they're still in the same insane ballpark as the 'market leader' and the price ISN'T justified...but nobody's doing anything about the defacto monopoly either.
Avis may have 'tried harder' but when it was revealed they were BOTH [Hertz was number one] owned by the SAME CORPORATE PARENT, charges of 'malfeasance' and corporate wrong-doing emerged.
Chances are 'monopolies' have 're-emerged' with the advent of 'supranational corporations' that are 'accountable' to no sovereign nation but themselves. The, er, 'puzzling' razor blade situation is the first to rear it's head. We don't have the 'legal horsepower' to track who, specifically owns what, where on a global basis.
So 'monopolies' will flourish while governments are powerless to rein them in and the 'global economy' continues to suck pond water because the feckless few still have much more than THEY need, the rest of us can go twist in the wind! [Money...we're doing it WRONG!]
Your eyes have glazed over...most of you don't give a crap about this 'economics stuff', you just want somebody to 'fix' this broken system...worse, you DON'T CARE how they do it.
Well, HOW LONG ARE YOU WILLING TO WAIT?
The hope is until after your DEAD...is that soon enough? WTF!
It ain't gonna change UNTIL YOU CHANGE IT!
In the mean time I suggest you buckle up, it's gonna be one hell of a bumpy ride!
It's gonna go sideways...the only question remaining is 'when'?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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