Blacks, latins, and women continue to avoid tech in school

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Epiphany. One day I am stopped at a light in a New Jersey resort and I am looking down the row of houses flying American flags, while primarily foreign cars are parked at the curb. Of course cars are vanity items too and American made is too blase today. The Koreans seem to be doing well. I heard just yesterday Japan sells 200 cars for every American car they import. And some wonder what happened to Detroit.

Nobody wonders what happened to detroti. It's 95% black and that destroyed the city. Cars had nothing to do with it.

 

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Epiphany. One day I am stopped at a light in a New Jersey resort and I am looking down the row of houses flying American flags, while primarily foreign cars are parked at the curb. Of course cars are vanity items too and American made is too blase today. The Koreans seem to be doing well. I heard just yesterday Japan sells 200 cars for every American car they import. And some wonder what happened to Detroit.

Nobody wonders what happened to detroti. (sic) It's 95% black and that destroyed the city. Cars had nothing to do with it.

So the fact Japan imports 200 cars to America for every one American car they import is irrelevant so long as you can point fingers at another?

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How do Americans compete with third world nations when corporate power manages our political flunkies who follow along like sheep?

NAFTA moved jobs out, all trade agreements move jobs to third world, cheap labor, slave labor, places, helps the bottom line. Now TPP is poised to do the same. Unreal. Even the Japanese don't like this so called agreement.

See excerpt from a book everyone should read below links to info on TPP.

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/15
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/03-0
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/17-7

"The lesson they have drawn is clear: if lesser civilizations will assume the hands-on work, the more advanced West can concentrate on working with its brain. Thanks to the proliferation of business schools, this self-interested approach has almost instantaneously been converted into a philosophical rationale. Rosabeth Moss Kanter at the Harvard Business School writes as a leading thinker of the "post-entrepreneurial company," as if this were an intended and welcome result of business evolution. She sees companies marrying "the best of the creative, entrepreneurial approach with the discipline, focus and teamwork of an agile innovative corporation." She writes confidently of "the coming demise of bureaucracy and hierarchy."

Kanter's critique of the big, old American corporations is in many ways accurate. But the changes she imagines are dependent on the fact that much of the entrepreneurial and unbeatable competition from the Third World owes its success to social injustice. This does "not seem to have made an impact on the intellect of management thinkers or of managers in general. In their exciting role as capitalists they talk endlessly about the innate value of competition. To be competitive is their equivalent of morality. They treat competition as if it were a universal value enshrined within a single definition. Thus they miss the essential relativity of competition. Of course a nation which uses nineteenth-century social standards as a basis for industrial production will produce cheaper goods than one which uses middle-class standards. But even the rolling back of social policy sought by the New Right in the United States and Britain will not reduce production costs to Third World levels.

For example, heavy industries, such as steel, have been hard hit by Korean production. In 1979, the American industry employed 435,000 people. Ten years later, it employed 169,000. Why is Korean steel so much cheaper? Before the recent worker protests, Koreans were putting in the longest average work week in the world - fifty-seven hours. In return they earned 10 percent of a Western salary. Since the Korean cost of living is quite high, the workers live in slum conditions. Unions have been virtually banned and strikes forbidden. The work conditions are reminiscent of nineteenth-century England. In 1986, 1,660 workers were killed on the job; 141,809 were injured.
Given the modern manager's devotion to an international "standard" of competition, the effect of the marginal improvement in social conditions brought about in Korea by persistent and violent street demonstrations has been to weaken Korea's attractiveness as a capitalist producer. The citizen who listens to the modern rhetoric of free markets and free men would assume that a bit more social justice and democracy are good things. The cause of Western civilization has been advanced. The manager, however, sets aside rhetoric when it comes to specifics. From his point of view, Korea is now less competitive.

For those companies that wish to sell in the North American market, it is now far more competitive to produce goods by using the southern American States and northern Mexico in tandem. Social standards in the American South were never high, but they are now being reinstitutionalized at a low level by industrial investors in search of cheap, unsecured, and unprotected labour. A few hours farther south, across the border, is a massive assembly area called the Maquiladora zone. The southern American states function at half the wage levels of the north, of Canada and of Europe. The Maquiladora zone functions at mid-nineteenth-century levels of child labour laws and factory safety regulations. Wages are a tenth those of the developed world. Dangerous chemicals and explosives can be processed there without the expense of protection for the worker or the environment. A product manufactured between Tennessee and Mexico is now more competitive than one manufactured in Asia."

pp 366,367 'Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West' John Ralston Saul

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Nobody wonders what happened to detroti. (sic) It's 95% black and that destroyed the city. Cars had nothing to do with it.

So the fact Japan imports 200 cars to America for every one American car they import is irrelevant so long as you can point fingers at another?

Yeah - it's irrelevant. Detroit's problem is that 95% of the city residents are illiterate welfare bums. It's hopeless.