You miss the point again. The Industrial Revolution *was* a race to the bottom. In its wake many of the measures you so despise were enacted - the minimum wage and child labor laws for example. I am being very serious when I suggest that you need to enter the nineteenth century, as your economic ideas are firmly rooted in the 1780s.
As for your notion that agriculture is non-productive... what do you eat? >> Galt wrote: >> I have thought that I believe in a free market within our system and >> protectionist policies to prevent third world countries and nations like the >> PRC from effectively pricing us out of jobs. >> > >This EXACT same debate happened in the late 1800s/early 1900s >regarding agrarian jobs. At that time ~80% of all jobs in the US were >farm related. With the advent of the industrial revolution there was >the same fear that assembly line technology had created a race to the >bottom. > >How many of you work in factories or on farms? > >So my point is this: fearing globalization is the race to the bottom. >It's a failure of imagination. Which of our fathers predicted we'd be >employed, out earning them, tapping on keys? > >So I'll repeat that we have 2 choices: > >1.) Align our trade policies to embrace globalization while >concurrently matching our education to new realities. > >2.) Lose the war of competition. > >And this isn't my opinion, it's a fact. Thousands, if not millions, of >US jobs have already been outsourced. Top American grads have already >started heading to China and India in droves. Top students have just >started to turn away from American universities. > >We're already beginning to lose. All you have to do to see that is >follow the money. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:207354 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
