> And whilst we're about it, what about the plight of white > middle-class > professional males ? > > The degree of "minoritiness" is irrelevant in itself. > It's the degree of "disadvantagedness" that matters. > > Ian
Back in school, when I learned about things like the Oil and Railroad barons, about Yellow journalism and other bad things that have happened, no teacher bothered to draw parallels to what is happening today. It was stuff in history books, and we failed and fail to see that history repeats itself. As for the drumming down and the out sourcing of middle America, well we keep bragging that we have gone from a manufacturing to a service industry. Then the services keep getting consolidated and automated, leaving more and more people out of good jobs. Then of course once you reach 40, you are too old to be employable. Of course new jobs pop up. Twenty years ago, if you were having a birthday party for a 7 year old, the odds were you held it at the house or the local park. Today that won't do. You need to be at a place where they make their own teddy bear, paint ceramics, do some gymnastics etc. More pyramid scheme industries to keep the masses occupied and under the illusion of getting rich one day. More money to be spent on crap, without having the quality time at the gathering. Khaled moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
