To: elmatador who wrote (36797 ) 11/20/2010 12:58:50 PM From: Frank A. Coluccio Read Replies (4) | Respond to Understood, Elmat, and the same dynamics indeed also manifest here and elsewhere in so-called developed countries. Elites, pundits, politicians, wannabe academics and those who sit plushy in large company management ranks and elected offices often rationalize this by noting, "let them take the crumbs and do the heavy lifting; we're still the best there is at innovating". To some degree that's still true, although one must assume that the legitimacy of this view can only dwindle asymptotically over time. But it's not a sustainable direction going into the future, in any event, even if it was at one time, even for a short while. There's only so much brain work required for constant innovation and disruption to go around, and it's not enough to keep the overwhelming majority of a nation with 360 million people gainfully employed. Payback's a bitch, they say. So it's time to rethink, refocus and redirect where we spend our time and what it is that we are teaching our young (if not also teaching new tricks to old dogs).
