Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Zeev Hed]

Try and put yourself around 1932, when farmers were losing their farms and their jobs in droves, around the turn of the last century, more than 50% of the population was on the farm and barely provided enough food for themselves and the other half of the population. Today about 2% of the population not only provide food for all of us, but for a good chunk of the rest of the world. The transition is a similar one here and now, more brain power is used less brawn power, in a future economy, it is not necessary for the screws to be driven in steel by local assembler that get paid $25/hour, instead the same people design, invent innovate, market etc. and get paid $50/hour to $150/hour. In time, when economic equalization around the world will evolve, maybe chimpanzees and gorillas will do the brawn work, and all the exercise we will do, will be recreational.

Watch Star Trek Next Generation, they try and get an inkling into a possible future... just don't worry too much about jobs moving to India and China, and there will always have to be local hamburger flippers and janitors, they cannot export that can they?

Zeev