This time is [not] different, but where's that Wile E. Coyote Moment?

[alice wellintown]

Is Rand a coyote or a road runner? A vulture? Whatever....labor is road
kill. It's over for labor; as steely Dan sez, look at all he white men on
the street. No sense getting all nostalgic for what is obsolete. It's
robots and robber barons not working stiffs and romneybots. Son, you were
mistaken.....

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/can-the-middle-class-be-saved/308600/


On Thursday, December 27, 2012, Michael Bailey wrote:

>  alice wellintown  wrote:
>
>> The truth is that America does make things of value, not only to
>> Americans, but also to the world. While most Americans complain that
>> everything is made in China, and while the press continues to give
>> voice to the idiots who say that the Americans are owned by, in a new
>> cold war with, are competing with China, this is not the reality. The
>> Americans don't make toys or shoes or clothes because they choose to
>> make helicopters and tractors, make math and physics and chemistry
>> into technologies, to engineer and innovate, and this makes sesne
>> because the US has intensity not in labor, where China has its
>> intensity, but in an educated and highly skilled and productive
>> workforce.
>
>
> which the vulture capitalists are training in adaptability,
> resourcefulness and ingenuity by being heartless pricks and moving their
> cheese...
>
> does that strategy work better than good pay & benefits and a commitment
> to a safe and fair workplace?  personally i doubt it but ayn rand would eat
> it up
>
> hmmm, Daily Kos article sez China's agencies are busy downgrading US
> credit rating, hope that doesn't mean anything bad!
>
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