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To: ajtj99 who wrote (77990)	7/27/2003 9:10:45 PM
From: SwampDogg	Respond to of 209892

<<There is a theory that economies evolve from agricultural based, to manufacturing based, to service based, and finally to educational based. We've just moved one step higher on the economic evolutionary ladder, IMO.>> Works until the people doing the manufacturing wake up and demand hire wages and a better quality of life. Many an empire has come and gone with that attitude. "Economic evolutionary ladder"? Pretty scary idea there to be frank...

To: ajtj99 who wrote (77990)	7/28/2003 12:09:22 AM
From: pvz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 209892

There is a theory that economies evolve from agricultural based, to manufacturing based, to service based, and finally to educational based. We've just moved one step higher on the economic evolutionary ladder, IMO. I think a perfectly good argument could be made that the enormous agricultural-based part of the economy in The Netherlands (cheese, flowers and tomatoes being the biggest three that would probably come to mind for most people) has evolved into a manufacturing-based economy. The sophistication of Dutch agriculture simply fits better into a manufacturing box than a purely agricultural one. It's also not just about farming. There is an enormous service element that involves the global sales and marketing part of the business. I'm not sure that this is at all relevant to the role of manufacturing in the US, other than that it's probably not realistic to be too black and white in categorizing an economy. pvz