tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post2105887260107310884..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - What's Going On?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-50607568481754384192008-03-07T09:00:00.000-08:002008-03-07T09:00:00.000-08:00That's the inevitable problem when manufacturing j...That's the inevitable problem when manufacturing jobs disappear. The big dollar jobs have certainly increased in the west. The service sector is all well and good but we can't all fetch each other drinks, not that we wouldn't like to.<BR/><BR/>For all his bigotry and character flaws, Henry Ford had vision. One thing he foresaw was to make an affordable car and to see that his own workers had wages adequate to buy his cars.<BR/><BR/>I suspect we're going to see a lot of apparent irrationality flow through world economies in the next two decades. We're so tied to our post-WWII economic models and beliefs that the emerging world of resource depletion and economic shifts is going to show the old rules don't work any longer.<BR/><BR/>But the Americans have shown that you can't build an economy by people selling each other their houses.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6918658616170803432008-03-07T08:45:00.000-08:002008-03-07T08:45:00.000-08:00I think the problem is the type of jobs people are...I think the problem is the type of jobs people are getting and the salary/wage. We can have many new jobs but if they are low paying no one is going to be buying a home,car, or on frivolous consumer spending. The loss of manufacturing is a huge loss of salaries. When they say services are they talking about waiters, etc because they don't even get minimum wage here in TO.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17404234601709022496noreply@blogger.com