Hi, Marcus,
As an oldfashioned Deweyan, I really resonate to your final paragraph. Thanks for the clarification. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 2:48 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] TPP pro and con A disagreement may be lurking here, if you assume that wealth and capability are the same. Or even if you assume that they are highly correlated. Or even if you assume that the causal arrow is from capability to wealth. I’m making the distinction because in many situations wealth may well be a result of anti-competitive and unfair practices. (I understand the TPP has some text about leveling the playing field with regard to anti-trust laws, but I haven’t looked at the language myself.) I don’t assume the casual arrow is from capability to wealth, but it seems worth considering that the world in which it causally related is better than one in which it is not, and that efforts like the TPP could at least in principle facilitate that. [..] And the political destabilization could perhaps be better managed by also developing the control system in a globalized way. Not sure what you mean by this. Can you say more? It can be understood in a community, in the U.S., or across a set of trade partners, that underskilled individuals can be retrained to be skilled workers. With federal law leading the way, dispense with the idea that a person should be expected to learn everything they need to know by 25, and if they fail to they are stuck with a limited set of options. Some of these things aren’t just policy things, but social norms that I think just don’t work anymore. Retraining, and learning in general, should be considered patriotic and rewarded, along the lines of programs that find work for veterans. Marcus
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