Why All the Hostility to the Global Economy?

Lets face it, the days of unions, fat paycheck for doing jacksh*t, and employment security are over in the United States - and most of Europe. These days you have to be constantly evolving, learning, improving to get ahead in the world.

And whats wrong with that? Instead of sitting on your butt and growing mold like a decaying log, workers are now forced to constantly come up with more innovative ways to add value to their organization. Isn't this what Capitalism is all about?

And yet, those who call themselves Capitalists often deplore the emerging global economy. Why can't they just get over it and accept the fact that if you're not adding value, you're not going to get ahead.

These days, its just not economically feasible to do certain things in some geographic areas - take manufacturing for example - there is no way an American factory can pay a good wage (lets say $20 per hour) when another company can open up a factory in China and pay 11 cents per hour. If you're a factory worker, its probably time to get some new skills - just accept the fact and move on. Otherwise, you'll probably end up out of a job and working at McDonalds.

So what do you do? Get your batchelors degree, get your Masters degree, get your Ph.D. Do SOMETHING!!! Don't just sit around and moan about the fact that you lost your good paying job - its gone!!

Make a positive impact in your life and in the global economy!

your stunning lack of knowledge in even the definitions of economic terms, much less how economic models work, would amuse me, if you weren't also a blow-hard and a thief.

You could have an exciting career in taking other people's stuff and selling it. Anything not nailed down is fair game. Sell the neighbors cat!

Yes, working hard and adding value!


We can all look up to the presidents and energy company executives who clawed their way to the top, adding value all the way.

From Enron to WorldCom to Tyco, without such role models, I wonder where my ethics would be.

Someday I, too, hope to have 6000 dollar shower curtains gifted by my Bermuda corporation, while the workers who paid for it instead of healthcare celebrate my success.

I'll never see people as a disposable resource, because I'll have been schooled in ethics by those who came before me.

I'll not see their low income housing tracts as the labour equivalent of a chicken pen in the food industry.



It's such a beautiful system, it brings a tear to my eye, sometimes.

Now back to work.