The Right Course for US
Here is a very interesting and informative presentation at the link
below. The US should look at it as a warning sign.
What we consume and what assets we have are not measures of our likely
future. What we produce and what our capabilities to produce are the real
indicators of our future.
The US should bring its production home and to very good friends in
order to begin producing everything we need. Otherwise, before long, the
workforce will forget how to make anything. Here are the indicators.
Over a half a century ago, young people used to distribute newspapers,
help mother in washing dishes, assist dad in mowing the lawn, do child minding,
work part time as waiters and waitresses in restaurants, and so on. They knew
how to do manual work to earn and save money, and to create wealth for
themselves and thus for the nation. Consequently, they used to grow up with
good communication, marketing, making, and management skills. American farmers
produced enough grains to help the hungry nations.
Now, children and young people get pocket money from parents to buy
imported electronic devices and apps to play games using only their fingers.
Parents take loans so that the children can pursue soft subjects in school and
college.
Americans get immigrants to do manual labor. The immigrant laborers use
imported machines and tools. We have no strategic plan to train unskilled
laborers. The result is that they remain unskilled forever needing basic
welfare benefits. Our academics do great theoretical and analytical discoveries
and inventions. However, it is known that such creative ideas and concepts
yield only single digit wealth while the final manufactured products yield high
double digit returns.
We started counting a few hundred billionaires while ignoring hundred
million families unsure of their future.
We should start making things before we forget what manufacturing is.
We should begin exercising our limbs again lest we suffer muscular
dystrophy.
We should get back to building bridges and canals for international
trade and development lest we are forced to build space high walls to defend
our lands.
We should enrich our workforce skills along with advanced robotic and
AI/ML technologies so the machines serve us lest we get forced to serve the
masters of such machines.
We should deploy our intellectual, creative, communication, and manual
capabilities so that all citizens work and enjoy the fruits and flavors of our
combined effort.
Here is the link.
THE CHINESE ARE LEAVING US IN THE DUST!
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