On 5/24/15 11:51 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:



Sometimes your comments suggest that you have never had to compete for
business or to make a living.

It's not that the USA has changed all that much. It's the fact that
the rest of the world has caught up in terms of productivity due to the
development of manufacturing technology. It makes
absolutely no sense for a corporation in the USA to have costs that are
ten times that of an offshore source for the same product. Even if they
tried for "moral" or patriotic reasons, they stand the risk of going out
of business. It's simple economics.

The way I see it, the only competitive advantage that exists in the USA
today is in some advanced technology areas and service related
industries. The latter won't always be so as more and more people find
themselves with less disposable income to pay for said services.
Advanced technology areas are also at risk due to a general brain drain
and loss of historical corporate knowledge.

You seem to think that corporate America can still operate the way it
did 30 years ago. To think they call me Luddite.



The US has changed a lot. The middle class is disintegrating, more and
more of the nation's wealth is being concentrated in the pockets of the
rich, college has become too expensive, lower and middle income workers
cannot live a decent life and save for retirement, the Republicans want
to take away what little remains of the safety net...we're heading for
an upheaval.