Re: Midrange Jobs National Discussion -- MIDRANGE-JOBS

The issue that I do not understand, and seems to me to be entirely newon the World scene is the immense technological improvements and theensuing productivity. It is entirely conceivable that a factory can bebuilt to build automobiles that runs lights-out for at least two longshifts, seven days a week. There would be no employee paychecks onthose two shifts, so those unneeded employees will never have the moneyto buy those automobiles. Its a new phenomenon and so far I have seenno satisfactory solutions mentioned anywhere.




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Hi Joe!
Redistribution of wealth is a productivity killer. But all other thingsbeing equal, population size and even population density provides higherstandards of living per person. All other things being equal.
"If one can chase a thousand, then two can put ten thousand to flight"."Two are better than one". In some ways this is a good thing, becausesmall countries cannot build submarines or battleships, but then neithercan they build supertankers or jumbo jets (some would also call thatgood). Just for example.
Europe is undergoing a population implosion crisis. Some German townsare in danger of becoming ghost towns.
China is becoming a world-class powerhouse precisely building on itspopulation, but mixed with a measure of capitalism.
The biggest problem for the U.S. is like Warren Buffet said. The UnitedStates is "exporting its economy". I've been using the same words sincearound 1990. You can't do that and maintain your production in real terms.
These things encourage economies and job growth: (1)Free market economyprinciples, (2)a population with a general minimum of a stable cultureand a minimum of "goodness" in Toqueville's sense of the word,(3)_honest political leadership that has its own citizens at heart,these are incubators of success, and (4)_stable technology.
The facts put the lie to the Erdmans of the 1960's who told us thatwithout drastic controls over population growth, mass starvation wouldkill off the majority of the world's people by 1980, unless it tookdrastic measures. Surprise, we're still here. And some of the worstwars, before that straw man argument comes up, have happened in placesthat otherwise were not the poorest or starvingest. Like Rwanda-Burundiwas one of the most prosperous countries in all of Africa!
India had a green revolution, Kenya raced to encourage good agriculturalpractices under good leadership, South Korea began investing and Japancontinued to save, save, save, and all these countries with bigpopulation densities are pushing up fast toward European standards.India is having another revolution, and China is racing ahead.
George Malthus was a man who loved tyrrany and he has been proven wrongin every generation since.
What makes for prosperity, and jobs growth, are an educated populace,generally good moral character, a concerned citizenry, technology, anappreciation for the importance of maintaining a local minimuminfrastructure of agriculture and industry ("hard goods"), freeenterprise encouragement, and now information, these are the things thatmake for prosperity and jobs.
Alan