10-05-2018, 06:01 AM
(10-05-2018, 04:05 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: 1. Small towns don't need to have old jobs return. Since lots of high tech jobs can be done remotely, it doesn't matter where you live. Folks can have the benefits of small towns like no traffic, cheap housing, and fresh food, once agriculture has to scale down. <- Big AG is doomed by resource depletion like all things big. Oil will get more expensive. Oil won't run out, but it's gonna cost. So, the young ones can get on-line and learn the skills of whatever sized companies , chuck cars even, and enjoy a less hectic small town life. Yeah, cars are so over rated. Tesla's a joke. Why mess with cars when one can replace big ugly freeways and airports with train stations for regular and light rail? Meh on corporations. The way I see it, there are no US based corporations. All big corporations are transnationals that owe no allegiance to anyone but the bottom line and need a smacking by anti trust laws.
I am satisfied that I could do copy writing, proofreading, and copy editing in the small town in which I live. I might not want to stay there because the community in which I live has little to offer. It has a good little theater, but otherwise its culture comes from Wal*Mart. There's nothing there that isn't available elsewhere except what requires community attachments from childhood.
Quote:2. I'm not worried about corporate globalism lasting. It's gonna collapse due to climate change, population overshoot, and mass poverty. It's a one way trip to a new dark ages man.
Expansion of deserts may be a slight concern in contrast to the inundation of prime farmland whence will come a reduction in the food supply.
Quote:3. I just want my little country to escape as much of the mess as possible. That means fewer people to match the carrying capacity.
Zero population growth worldwide!
Quote:4. Jobs no Americans will do. That's dumb. If you shut off the cheap labor, companies can either raise wages and improve working conditions so Americans will do the jobs or else they can just shut down. It's their choice and since they fucked over American workers, tough shit to them. I'd pick lettuce if I got paid $30.00/hr plus benefits. Lettuce prices go up, but oh well. This is what I keep telling you. There's no need for more people, because resources will become more scarce. I don't want to import elite labor either. If companies want to do business here, they need to support our education system more. They sure as hell need to have a must do reason to do that.
The children of the immigrants who do such work assimilate the desire for the American dream.
Quote:5. There will be no need to connect to a world that's like a petri dish full of bacteria. Humans ain't no different. We'll keep breeding until our population crashes in our own waste. Trump's a bit off wrt shithole. The whole world's becoming a shithole full of microplastics, fertilizer fueled red tides , and just plain trash. Trump is off wrt shit holes. The whole world is becoming a shit hole. The US is a literal shit hole due to homeless problems, Mr. Trump. The flood tide of human shit means the whole world is a shit hole. Now that's one thing that's global, human shit, all over the place , regardless of race, it's something whether we like it or not we'll have to embrace, face to face.
Trump has a fecal mind. He has always been either a narcissist or a sociopath, but I also notice a rigidity of thought and a loss of inhibitions commonplace among the senile. He may be a cruel man, but he serves economic interests themselves cruel. Again, he is ultimately a symptom of pathology of thought within American elites.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.