Replies to post #101879 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[brainlessone]

zeev do you expect intc and nok to break their lower channel lines of around 16.50 for intc and 15.3 for nok

[lurqer]

In time, when economic equalization around the world will evolve, maybe chimpanzees and gorillas will do the brawn work

A new economy - gorilla game. Why am I having this Deja Vu?

lurqer

[Babylon]

I think his question remains unanswered for the most part. Are you implying that the horse of the economy of tomorrow will be engineering, with burger-flippers to serve them and janitors to clean their offices? I don't think we can build on that as a foundation. If you can cite other examples beside that one I'd love to hear it. Even some of the IT engineering is being accomplished from the outside with the likes of software in India etc., and I'm sure that's not the only example. I don't think many want to move there to flip a burger or clean stalls. Imagine the economic class divergence if it did boil down to a tipping of the scale towards almost a all brains driven society. If those brains ever became primarily foreign (what's to stop them gaining superiority over the longer term?), could we possibly keep the trophy as the king of consumers?

I think the real answer is quite frankly: we don't know (right now).

[baletwine]

Do you want fries with that?

[Paul Fakler]

I agree, mostly (we'll eventually use robots to relieve drudgery -- chimp and gorilla slaves not economical or politically correct).

I've always thought that US immigration should be actively encouraged for anyone with an advanced degree (or any degree in sciences) from an accreditted univerisity. We need the innovators, scientists, engineers, & entreprenuers that will create these jobs.

People say that XX number of years from now, social security burden will be unsupportable. Unless we really screw up, this is unlikely. 50 years from now people will be encouraged to "retire" at an earlier age & all will be encouraged to get even more education. Increases in productivity & automation will allow and even mandate it.

Paul.

[goodluck]

<<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?>>

as long as we're talking about Next Generation--they'll use robots first, then replicators.

[titan3]

Anybody with thoughts on QLGC's #'s next week? Are they announcing on the 28th??