cultsmasher
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From what I saw on the news once, China is awash with unemployed engineers. According to another program I was watching, many in the U.S. are now going overseas to get surgeries done for less cost. Which apparently a lot of U.S. insurance companies are in favor of. (So much for the supposed service based economy the U.S. was supposed to be transitioning to) In the poor countries that produce things like doctors and engineers, do you ever wonder why so many people would go through so much schooling for so little payoff?
Well I have a theory. I think it's because the poor in such places really know how to be poor! Look at slums in places like Brazil or India. In the Phillippines, many of the poor even take up residence in graveyards. What the wealthy or highly educated really need to be happy is people lower than them to be superior to. In such countries, they have that in abundance. So the highly educated can get by with less because there are so many who have so much less.
When it comes to this, foreign countries beat us all to hell. The question is if this is what we Americans should have for ourselves. Well that question has already been answered. All we have to do is wait for it to happen. It all really started with this country deciding it was ok to send American jobs overseas. Also, more troubling news depends on who you ask. I have seen websites that tell what the trade deficit is with China alone. One website says it is about 300 billion per year. Another says that it is over 700 billion dollers per year.
On many fronts, I often hear experts say "unsustainable." Some day, the wealthy in the country are going to get their comeuppance. But the problem is that they will have many poor to cushion their fall. Then we can have the same "superiority" as other countries when it comes to the poor. Or you could avoid all this and elect me as dictator.
Well I have a theory. I think it's because the poor in such places really know how to be poor! Look at slums in places like Brazil or India. In the Phillippines, many of the poor even take up residence in graveyards. What the wealthy or highly educated really need to be happy is people lower than them to be superior to. In such countries, they have that in abundance. So the highly educated can get by with less because there are so many who have so much less.
When it comes to this, foreign countries beat us all to hell. The question is if this is what we Americans should have for ourselves. Well that question has already been answered. All we have to do is wait for it to happen. It all really started with this country deciding it was ok to send American jobs overseas. Also, more troubling news depends on who you ask. I have seen websites that tell what the trade deficit is with China alone. One website says it is about 300 billion per year. Another says that it is over 700 billion dollers per year.
On many fronts, I often hear experts say "unsustainable." Some day, the wealthy in the country are going to get their comeuppance. But the problem is that they will have many poor to cushion their fall. Then we can have the same "superiority" as other countries when it comes to the poor. Or you could avoid all this and elect me as dictator.