Random thoughts from a cross continent conversation, during which time I have been doped up on NyQuil and decongestants. What follows is not themed and may make absolutely no sense at all.
- In the 80’s they told us that to get ahead, you went to college. Now when they say college is best it does not mean a lot to me. I know that when I apply to jobs I am one of hundreds instead of one of 4 or 5.
- College grads earn more (on average than non-college grads), but when you come out with debt that can counteract the pay increase. If someone is going to be happy working on a manufacturing line, then they shouldn't be pressured to go 20-60k in debt to say they went to college.
- I ~love~ hearing about how X Company will bring in so many jobs and create all this extra income from supporting things. Well, that would be nice except that 9 months ago 2500 manufacturing jobs went overseas and none of those people are qualified for the new company.
- I love hearing about how government expects you to keep retraining for new jobs and at the same time passes laws that make it easier for the worker to be exploited.
- I was listening to a radio show the other night where a caller was arguing that the terrorists who claim to be Muslim really aren't so people shouldn't refer to their actions as part of their holy Jihad. Sounds like something done a few years back to justify the Crusades and the Inquisition.
They are hijacking the religion to give them reasons for their criminal actions. It is painting everyone with the same brush and depending on to whom it happens, people will either jump on the wagon or condemn it. - There have been some who have said the earthquake was caused by the US. If we had such a weapon, we would have already used it. I'm worried that recent events will prompt only those on the extremes to action.
- There is so much going on now that is going to define how we are governed. No longer can you trust the federal government to stay federal and now the states are pushing to take more from where they are. The constitution was designed to be able to change and grow, but it seems to me that the conservative side seems to be around just to slow down the liberal side. From the other side, the conservative side has their own agenda and the liberal side is disappearing. Sounds like we are seeing things with different filters, but coming up with the same answers.
- I was reading that the socialist/capitalist approach to social security is going to come out soon with the European/US populations aging quickly. The Europeans are going to be hurting far worse, but the US isn't going to feel good either. Social Security is designed so that it is sustainable if for every person being supported, four pay in, so that the best way to fix it is to get more people paying into it by creating more jobs instead of sending them oversees.
- Free Trade isn't going to work until China falls off the communist platform. China will fall off of that platform because of the economics involved. China can only sustain itself by bringing in more economic business and reform in government control and besides their people now involved in the information age will demand it inevitably.
Until that happens though, it throws off the whole equation. They are too much of a consumer and have too much leverage to build things cheep for the rest of things to even out. I just hope we do not piss them off because they could easily screw all of us after all 92% of goods in the local hell mart are made in China. - We all also need to rethink mergers or the idea that a merger is good business. Gas, Cell Phone, Computer markets have all and will all hurt us in the longer term. The idea of monopoly being inside a country is so old fashioned that it should be thrown out along with patent/copy right laws. Until those are international, they are useless.
- People lost what the term "Made in America" is really all about. It is about being self-sustained and that should be a concern to all of us living in the US. Imagine the bribery and political brutality that could be waged against us. The way things are going, pretty soon the US will be completely consumer and unable to take care of itself. That's just a hostage situation waiting to happen. We are all getting suckered.
- How do you get rid of a competing company? You undercut them until they fold, then take over. It is that basic. That is the new warfare of the century is that kind of undercutting after all can't people see that this happens? There are plenty of examples out there some are really easy to pick up on like the cable companies It is such a hard thing to watch the government that goes after companies for antitrust actions, rolls over and lets the same thing happen on a global scale without a word or then applauding.
Comments (1)
You should have these random thoughts more often. They're like a quick-stop fill-up on genius perspective.
Posted by dragonfly | January 6, 2005 7:10 PM
Posted on January 6, 2005 19:10