01-21-2017, 09:28 AM
(01-20-2017, 06:35 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Be that as it may, I can tell from many of his comments he is totally in "the bubble." Heck, I could have been there too. It's tempting when one is wrapped constantly in the excitement of tech, start ups, etc. In any case, this is precisely the tone deafness that has so enraged the "not coasts" against the coasts. Globalism and middle class health are mutually incompatible.
I don't think that's true, but it is hard. Everyone wants the Easy Button, so the globalists push for open borders and free trade, the nativists prefer to slam the door shut. Neither can succeed, because neither is adequate. The real solution will take decades to complete, but it starts with future-first infrastructure, education and training, and a restructuring of the economy away from capital friendly tax and subsidy policies to something that involves a transfer from the ownership class to everyone else. How and to what extent is TBD ... but it will either happen or chaos will make an appearance first.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.