I tend to agree with Robin. There is no reason that those without jobs could not be employed as not everything can be exported.
Now there are many ways that extra employment could be found, one of them would be a significant pickup in aerospace. Since mysteriously no one wants to revisit the moon and Mars is too far off, why not build a 'real' space station? Something sized to take thousands of occupants, and have regular flights to and fro that are actually accessible price wise? That would generate a lot of employment and little if and could be farmed out. Now this would be just one example but really there is no shortage of useful visionary projects that could be created to employ people. At any rate, unemployment + poverty - choice (some people choose not to be employed) is nothing but an example of poor organization. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Nick Palmer's message of Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:34:43 +0100: > Hi, > [snip] > >Tariffs intended to keep wealth circulating locally are nothing but good. > > No, these are bad too. Wealth *is* being recirculated locally, it all stays > on > planet Earth. We all need to stop thinking so parochially and start > thinking of > everyone on the planet as our bothers and sisters. This is giving the > poorer > members of our family a chance to catch up, but even that chance is > something > they are winning for themselves by being prepared to work harder and for > less > than we are. > > In the long term, as the standard of living rises in China, the people will > gain > a stronger voice, and demand higher wages. At that point manufacturing will > shift to other low wage countries, probably largely in Africa. > > In this way, wealth is slowly distributed among the peoples of the World. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html > >
