11-17-2021, 02:35 PM
(11-17-2021, 01:13 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't know if the USA can reclaim its industries and rein in the aristocratic bosses. Americans may not be willing to vote for a government that can accomplish this. But Reaganomics/trickle-down Neoliberalism must go, and the people must ditch it forever, or else submit to a China-dominated world. US industry certainly can't be rebuilt unless the bosses are contained and required to pay fair wages, because otherwise the industry will have no customers and no workers. The bosses will continue to oursource and roboticize. They have plenty of money already; they can afford to pay higher wages, continue to produce quality products, and contribute to society and education. Small business is a different matter, but they too can at least pay their employees the wages they need in order to patronize the small businesses in turn and meet their needs including if they are supplied by the big guys.
We need the industries to make quality products. Most if not all of the big box stores now sell imported products made from cheap labor overseas. These stores will have to change if cheap labor is restricted in the USA, and tariffs are high. Free trade is suicide, unless the nations involved are on a level playing field of the peoples' income, peoples' rights and the regulations required. Free trade is building a dangerous imperial tyrant competitor prepared to snuff out democracy and human rights. And Xi Jinping will have a tyrant ally if the likes of Trump is allowed to stage a coup like January 6th and take over the USA. The perpetrators of January 6th must be jailed.
I do need a music CD player next to my bed.
The irony exhibited by the monied elites is stunning. They gave away our industrial base and the technology that drives it for short term profits, now they wonder how they can keep things rolling as an ever growing percentage of the populaiton declines economically and can't buy even the cheap crap they're importing.
The irony of the workers is worse, backing the elites against any remaining interest in the economy they might have.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.