The important part of cars and fridges is not making them, but using them.
If people in Botswana - or more likely China - make our cars and fridges let's use them.
What's the problem?
Harry
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Ed wrote:
Keith, interesting stuff. I like the concept of "metal bashing industries". Because we will continue to need cars, trucks, tanks, aeroplanes, guns, and girders for tall buildings for someone to blow up, somebody, somewhere will have to keep bashing metal. It may not be necessary for them to do in the rich world. They can do it in China (unless they get rich) or Mexico (unless they get rich too). We will also need houses, so we'll have to have "board and brick bashers". I think that will have to be done where we live, so there will still be people who can do things among us. We will also need energy - oil, gas and coal for the time being, but surely, if Rifkin is right, hydrogen at some point (flogisten(sp?) bashers?).People in the poor world now make our clothes. Why shouldn't they make our cars and fridges (perhaps, largely, they already do)? What will be left for us? I take your point about education. But at some point the dominant way we think may not be about how we do things, but about what we do next to keep the bubble going. If we don't make things anymore, how do we keep ourselves rich, ahead of the pack, so to speak? We've recently been in a stew about con artists in big business and have gone to some lengths to purge ourselves of them. But we should not worry, they'll be back. Best regards, Ed
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