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To: energyplay who wrote (49714)	5/7/2009 5:25:49 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218055

"...for America to grow at a trend rate of about 2.5% something else will have to grow more quickly. Ideally that would be exports and investment. But given the torpor in the rest of the world that will not be easy. economist.com

To: energyplay who wrote (49714)	5/7/2009 1:06:16 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218055

How significant relative to real manufacturing jobs were these reclassifications I wonder.. In my teens I worked as a janny (wide range of experience I have LOL) in a warehouse for a (now defunct) major department store in Montreal.. There were two of us out of maybe a hundred warehouse folks and another 100 or so route drivers.. Lots of jobs were created in retail service with the rise of consumerism.. too wit Starbucks.. lower pay.. and now no more secure than GM maybe ? I just think the landscape is gonna change ... a fair bit.. not exactly a normal cycle.. but part of the global shift we've long talked about here.. TBS

To: energyplay who wrote (49714)	5/7/2009 1:33:54 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 218055

Another job stat.. Message 25628279

To: energyplay who wrote (49714)	5/8/2009 8:52:13 AM
From: dvdw©	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218055

when you say; "Now all these functions are done by contractors, and counted as service jobs. So the work has become disaggregated." not really. As time goes about shaping capital, the character of the labor input function is changing. Outputs from hands on contribution value, might be scaled back by as much as 50 to 70 %. While the function required to get those kinds of reductions, shifts the burden somewhere else. It remains a holistic process; though, the skill sets are of a completely different kind matched perfectly to the changed process. inputs and outputs to process, are whats up in the air, not armmegedon.(sp-)...just time doing its thing. we can not know whether the gross contribution of labor within any holistic food chain will actually grow or shrink, we can't know; because systems tend toward accumulation, while certain components disappear, others are envisioned as necessary, and take their place. the shape of the emergent holistic image is strictly a relative function whose variables are subject to an unequal distribution of knowledge.