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To: Crabbe who wrote (3282)	1/13/2006 1:09:56 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219421

Service jobs are the best jobs and what we are designed for. Chimps check for nits in each others fur, grooming each other for ages. Humans, once we have escaped the need to man a factory or cubicle, will go back to grooming each other. You scratch your back and I'll scratch yours; hey presto, everyone has a job, other than the usual unemployable who find it difficult to work out how to do a decent massage, haircut, toenail trim, makeup application etc. There will be a tax issue with people becoming resentful of having to scratch some government bludger's back half the time and only getting a half scratch in return. People will have to scratch their own back to avoid paying taxes to the government. Or, they might not bother with telling the government that they are scratching each other's backs. Government spivs, hangers-on and bludgers will have to get real jobs, scratching other people's backs instead of just hanging around doing nothing and getting free back scratches. That will be an excellent outcome of the cyberspace revolution. With calculators costing almost nothing these days, and other things getting cheaper, government bludgers can collect less revenue, though production of other things keeps expanding to fill the void so taxes continue to increase. Mqurice

To: Crabbe who wrote (3282)	1/13/2006 5:31:06 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219421

Moving to the purpose of this thread, the financial crash of 2001 and beyond" Beyond 2001 we need people we new the new generation of people who flip the whole concept. Today people only look to the rear mirror and not through he windscreen. 1) We need to apply the innovations. Make this high tech tractor/harvester combiner cultivate land up and down hill. The land cultivated today is only flat and a lot of more land will open up for cultivation. Reforest land by trees that take 10 years to harvest, along them find the right plants say, beans for instance. Beans will give you a steady income while you wait for the trees to be cut in 10 years time. This tractor will be excellent to navigate the trees and be used to plant and harvest the beans. A single go, we get more food, open new land for cultivation. Sink more C02, sell more machines and get more wood which in its turn gets cheaper and substitute the man made materials. 2) Work drove technology because it was artificially costly. Given a certain set of circumstances, there are no rich countries or poor countries. There are inflated countries and deflated countries. There is only inflation in between countries. Why a German engineer costs more than a Czech, Hungarian or Polish? Before it was said that a German engineer would produce with more quality and more productivity. That was in 19th century making cockoo watch perhaps. Today they produce the same. Work needs to become dirty cheap so that people are employed once again. But we have over-regulations. Unions should be banned and made illegal. No minimum wages should be allowed. That's necessary for the price of work come down. There's a lot of regulations and corporativism that act as barrier of entry. Those barrier of entry must be removed. All barriers of entry protect the ones already employed to the detriment of the not yet employed. Governments, seeing the pressure, act as employers of last resource creating pseudo-jobs. Modify labor that the jobs appear. Do not try to find a hairdresser in Munich on Saturday. Hair salons and barber shops are closed. That's a rule! 3) Artificially high cost of labor drove automation. Let me give an example. Brazil -during hyper inflation years- lead the world in bank automation. My German bank in the 80's was stone age compared with Brazil's. A check from the Amazon cleared in 24 hours. Our ATM's received deposits, you light bills it was amazing. Outside Brazil there were only cash dispensers. Those who had no bank accounts paid electricity bills in pharmacies and lottery shops. The banks sacked the front office people!!! Why the banks did that? Because the bank workers' union became too strong. They had the banks by the balls since money had to circulate faster in the economy during those inflation years. The bank workers strike often and got whatever they wanted sine the banks couldn't stop. They became too strong for their own good and the banks started bank automation in a nig scale. as you can see work should not cost too much. The Chinese are not better than anyone else. They just have labor that cost the right price. China not being a inflated country beat the inflated ones. 4) Those youngsters in France are sons of immigrants that work at Peugeot factory, during the cushy jobs years of no competuion national champions and strong CGT (French Union) and egalitarian social democracies. They don't need jobs. They need cushy jobs of his father -now retired- had. Ask him to get any job and negotiate the price with his emplyers. The few jobs that pay the price the government force them to pay, goes to french youngsters. CONCLUSION: We need globalization on a massive scale. We have this sample of it in the last 10 years and is proved that it works and need to pushed forward. Communications are cheap. Technology is cheap. Educated labor is aplenty. We just need to remove the barriers and have services and products dirty cheap. Then we can add 1.2 billion Indians half a billion Africans and 1.3 billion to the economy. Then we go out to look for more materials and stuff that we need to give them decent lives. I am sure about that not because I read in book or learned at a university library or heard a professor speaking from platform. Is the result of living and working in many countries. From the First world Sweden and Germany through the fifth world Nigeria, through Iran, Malaysia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia former communist Czech and native Brazil. I have been there and work and lived in all of them. I have also traveled to many other countries where I make what I call "economic tourism". Not interested in Museums but how much cost a house? How much does a certain professional earns. Asking why this? Why that? To the extent that the locals always think I am planning migrate to their country.