tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post8388631127409390681..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: This Tells You a Lot About Today's EconomyThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-42917946843785929212018-02-15T14:10:21.565-08:002018-02-15T14:10:21.565-08:00Anon, thank you for the kind words. Those stats re...<br />Anon, thank you for the kind words. Those stats really do reveal the measure of hollowing out of the industrial sector of the American economy. The good side, however, is that the creativity sector thrives - for now. Yet that's the end result of a lot of preliminary development that's now well underway elsewhere, notably China.<br /><br />If the world is able to maintain a sufficient level of economic, political and environmental stability for the next two decades, it's not a reach to imagine America's current world-beating tech giants may have lost much of their current edge to competitors abroad.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-25129460478362819002018-02-15T13:49:04.495-08:002018-02-15T13:49:04.495-08:00My guess, Toby, is that when you're free of ge...<br />My guess, Toby, is that when you're free of geographic considerations such as proximity to markets, raw materials, industrial base, etc., you're free to locate to regions that are the nicest to live in.<br /><br />Pretty much every British Columbian knows that's the west coast. Why would you want to locate to places where the air is foul and it's insufferably hot in the summer and unbearably cold in the winter?<br /><br />There's that one inescapable fact. Victoria is the warmest city in Canada based on average, year round temperature. The hottest cities are east. The coldest cities are east. The most humid cities are east. The cities with the foulest air are east. They can't compete.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-1250633506781037552018-02-15T12:46:40.728-08:002018-02-15T12:46:40.728-08:00Hi Mound,
first off, many thanks for this blog. Y...Hi Mound,<br /><br />first off, many thanks for this blog. You point to a lot of great info that I would never find myself. Kudos!<br /><br />Next, the thing I find striking with the list is how little the companies on this list actually produce. Only Apple actually makes "things". Microsoft is increasingly moving away from selling software to providing "Software as a Service" (SaaS), meaning that you don't even own the software you pay for and can lose it at any time they choose (think of when Kindle memory-holed copies of 1984) and you can lose the ability to stay with a current version to save money. Amazon is a distribution channel for companies who do make things. Google and Facebook just sell eyes to advertisers.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-24073611553904612302018-02-14T19:36:03.030-08:002018-02-14T19:36:03.030-08:00That's a stunning list, Mound. Any thoughts a...That's a stunning list, Mound. Any thoughts about why all five are West Coast? None of them are east of the Cascades. They are all close enough to the Pacific Ocean to go surfing for an afternoon break. There is nothing staid about this at all. Traditional companies better wake up.<br /><br />Tobynoreply@blogger.com