Bye bye Blue collars
I was talking to my wife about the economic situation again on the trip home from her mothers. Interestingly enough, the Idea I had was in line in a recent new york times article.
The idea is nothing new, I've been talking about it considering my hypothesis of migrating labor and population, and shifting the majority hopefully from working class towards skilled professional class.
Right now I've been looking at its effect in a quite simple manner that I hope i can communicate well.
Given that we're learning about the recession: that there was a surplus of spending power that that had nothing substantial to back it, spending has come to pretty much a serious halt, for the rest of the world and especially for the united states.
Considering that this caused a Loss of Jobs, one would begin to wonder on the macro principle of economics: That as long as there is a population there are jobs specializing to support every aspect of it. So, just because the whole world lost a ton of money, vanishing to thin air, does that mean there are no jobs to be had?
I believe that starting back at the basics with solid backing is a good thing and proves true to the virtues of why the Free Market has aspects of self regulation.
Now, consider what happened when blue collar Jobs don't pay as well as they used to. Especially when the rest of the world moves towards the prices set in China and Developing world labor costs.
My experience in the states is that a blue collar worker can afford to by a 52 inch TV, a harley, etc. etc. Now what's wrong with that is, that for the rest of the world a job as low skilled as a blue-collar one should pay proportionally to how easily trainable or replaceable a laborer costs.
So If the guy in China (India, and the other developing countries) can do the job for 1/10 the price, then let him have the job. What about the bunch people who used to have that job? With the money they make, they can easily afford a degree in something important in a community college or an education outside their own country (if they don't have the generalizing bias that education outside their country is crap).
The thing is, now that the world is balancing out jobs that have a disproportion of skill to pay will be corrected. ideally Job that take the sacrifice and hardship of a college education would be the jobs that can afford Luxuries (by means of Luxuries, I mean them by the standard of the rest of the world). Hopefully more people out there will go out and get a degree, certification, training and open their minds and push their own mental bounderies like the rest of the struggling world.
This is not a rebuke to the developed world in general, but actually the People who depend on the Votes of those who want to protect them with such policies to preserve or build their own power (why Palin giving me shivers).
Imagine if education and highly competent technical expertise were the way to climb up in the meritocracy, and by removing the ability to comfortably coast a long with an unskilled job, will force people to maximize the only attribute that can overcome any disability.
I know it will be a huge cultural change from the working class attitude of a "simple" life to that of having to face the more complex issues. Like in any conflict there will be casualties, like those in the NY times article. Fortunately, the current adminstration seems to be concerned about the matter and has plans to do something about it. I'm my opinion, the permanence of the fear for the loss of job security and the understanding of education as a means to overcome it is important to be ingrained in a culture and people.
I've learned for quite a while the high esteem for education has always been an ingrained in many of the peoples of the developing and emerging market countries. It is quite interesting that this attitude will put more common ground with other peoples as well as creating the foundation of a more globalized awareness and community as the information age matures regarding the access of education and information.
If military studies says that 90% of all males can be trained to be an effective soldier then consider how much education can do without the physical barriers for women, handicaped, and even mentally impaired.
The idea is nothing new, I've been talking about it considering my hypothesis of migrating labor and population, and shifting the majority hopefully from working class towards skilled professional class.
Right now I've been looking at its effect in a quite simple manner that I hope i can communicate well.
Given that we're learning about the recession: that there was a surplus of spending power that that had nothing substantial to back it, spending has come to pretty much a serious halt, for the rest of the world and especially for the united states.
Considering that this caused a Loss of Jobs, one would begin to wonder on the macro principle of economics: That as long as there is a population there are jobs specializing to support every aspect of it. So, just because the whole world lost a ton of money, vanishing to thin air, does that mean there are no jobs to be had?
I believe that starting back at the basics with solid backing is a good thing and proves true to the virtues of why the Free Market has aspects of self regulation.
Now, consider what happened when blue collar Jobs don't pay as well as they used to. Especially when the rest of the world moves towards the prices set in China and Developing world labor costs.
My experience in the states is that a blue collar worker can afford to by a 52 inch TV, a harley, etc. etc. Now what's wrong with that is, that for the rest of the world a job as low skilled as a blue-collar one should pay proportionally to how easily trainable or replaceable a laborer costs.
So If the guy in China (India, and the other developing countries) can do the job for 1/10 the price, then let him have the job. What about the bunch people who used to have that job? With the money they make, they can easily afford a degree in something important in a community college or an education outside their own country (if they don't have the generalizing bias that education outside their country is crap).
The thing is, now that the world is balancing out jobs that have a disproportion of skill to pay will be corrected. ideally Job that take the sacrifice and hardship of a college education would be the jobs that can afford Luxuries (by means of Luxuries, I mean them by the standard of the rest of the world). Hopefully more people out there will go out and get a degree, certification, training and open their minds and push their own mental bounderies like the rest of the struggling world.
This is not a rebuke to the developed world in general, but actually the People who depend on the Votes of those who want to protect them with such policies to preserve or build their own power (why Palin giving me shivers).
Imagine if education and highly competent technical expertise were the way to climb up in the meritocracy, and by removing the ability to comfortably coast a long with an unskilled job, will force people to maximize the only attribute that can overcome any disability.
I know it will be a huge cultural change from the working class attitude of a "simple" life to that of having to face the more complex issues. Like in any conflict there will be casualties, like those in the NY times article. Fortunately, the current adminstration seems to be concerned about the matter and has plans to do something about it. I'm my opinion, the permanence of the fear for the loss of job security and the understanding of education as a means to overcome it is important to be ingrained in a culture and people.
I've learned for quite a while the high esteem for education has always been an ingrained in many of the peoples of the developing and emerging market countries. It is quite interesting that this attitude will put more common ground with other peoples as well as creating the foundation of a more globalized awareness and community as the information age matures regarding the access of education and information.
If military studies says that 90% of all males can be trained to be an effective soldier then consider how much education can do without the physical barriers for women, handicaped, and even mentally impaired.
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