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Originally Posted by CherryCreek
The "S" word has been in the news a lot recently, though its clear to me that there's not necessarily any real agreement on what it means, generically or in the context of America in 2019.
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That's a good liberal sounding script and a lot to unpack so I'll only scratch the surface.
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Originally Posted by CherryCreek
The sharply rising wealth inequality and the emergence of the "mega corporations" with valuations that exceed the GDP of many of the world's countries seems like a throw back to the days of Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, and Rockefeller.
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So being Big and successful auto means being bad?
I thank my lucky stars that this country is still leading the pack when it comes to creativity, ingenuity and success. These behemoths that are suddenly out of favor are successful because they have global footprints. Do you
not want American companies to be globally successful? The irony to me is that Silicon Valley has been a bastion of liberalism; certainly Obama benefited immensely. But now we want to turn them into conservatives because they're too fat? Okay but be careful what you wish for.
These companies do employ a lot of HB-1 visa workers. Should we send them all back to India and let them innovate from there? Then we can eat their table scraps instead of continuing America's success. For shame a company would become too successful, whatever that means.
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Originally Posted by CherryCreek
The American legacy of each generation improving economically over the prior generation seems to have died.
There's a tendency on the right to call any sort of government action that is aimed at protecting consumers, workers or the disadvantaged as "socialism", as if the Bolsheviks were at the gates ready to crown an American Stalin.
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I obviously must be getting more conservative by the day because I totally disagree. I'm sure you must have read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? That novel dates to 1906. The number of 'safety' regulations from construction to the factory floor are immense. The number of people required with engineering or finance degrees multiplies by the decade as everything becomes more tech driven. I'm not anti-union but it's a fact that in many cases Unions have helped in the demise of many a good company. General Motors and Ford despite their recent impressive success are not out of the woods yet. Both companies may be lucky to survive. Would you prefer to live in a country where Jeff Bezos had no chance to be so successful?
Speaking of construction in Phoenix like Denver there's a shortage of qualified or quality workers even at a more labor intensive level. If you're good at it you can make a good living and after a few years own your own house and Big Truck. It may be that most construction workers make more than many liberal arts majors but good for construction workers. It's market driven place where they can easily join the middle class.
Landscape work is more menial. An owner of 3-4- 500 units would rather pay less than more ofc. They will also pay up for quality, dependable work for people who can do the job right the first time. I happen to have spoken with a number of lowly maintenance workers
who own their own home. Maybe they just show up on time and work hard and make a good enough living.
Anyway there's still tons of opportunity out there but lacking the right or any skills it's not so easy as just being good at pouring concrete.
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