Oh how the country has changed in the last 36 years. We were a nation of farmers, secretaries, and machine operators in 1978. The family farmer was still the backbone in the Northern Plains and Midwest. The internet didn’t exist, so letters needed to be typed, copies made, mail distributed, dictation taken, and coffee brewed. So every business was loaded with secretaries. The country still manufactured goods here in 1978. We sold them domestically and internationally. Globalization and NAFTA hadn’t become the buzz words of Ivy League educated MBA’s yet.
A look at the most common jobs today reveals how the country has changed.
Corporations bought up most of the family farms and older farmers died off. Independent farmers are now a dying breed. The internet all but eliminated the need for secretaries. They became the buggy whip of the 21st Century. There is no need for machine operators when all the machines and manufacturing plants are located in China, Vietnam, and the rest of Southeast Asia. The Ivy League MBAs gutted American manufacturing and sent all the jobs to Asia, where they could produce the same products 80% cheaper and drive their corporate profits sky high, along with their own stock based compensation. So we are left with a nation of truck drivers transporting cheap Chinese produced crap to the millions of retail outlets, where the low wage slaves borrow to buy the crap. The American Dream achieved in 36 short years.
This is how you turn a nation of producers into a nation of consumers. And it couldn’t have been accomplished without the prodigious amounts of debt aided, abetted and distributed by the Federal Reserve and their Wall Street owners.
Bea – you dumbass. Once again I ask: If there has been an outflow of jobs why has not manufacturings share of GDP dropped?
It is a very simple question. How is it possible that if jobs have left, that there has been no impact on GDP?
Answer: it is not fucking possible. If work is transferred out of the country, there is a drop in GDP. There is no other option. But there has been no drop in share of GDP.
It really is simple. Even a moron like you should understand.
And referencing the cumulative jobs exported: that is bullshit. The jobs were not exported. I just looked up the article. Admin has falsely represented the data in the chart – what a surprise!
What that graph represents is the number of workers that would be required to manufacture the goods currently being imported. Those jobs never existed in the US, so they could not be exported.
That sure is not the same as number of jobs exported.
Again, as I have said, via debt, the US now consumes far more goods than it used to. It continues to make goods worth 12 percent of GDP. And it imports another 7 percent of GDP in goods from elsewhere.
That is not the same as exporting jobs. It is simply the derived number as to how many jobs could be created if instead of importing the goods they were made in the US. But those jobs never existed in the US. So they could not have been exported.
Damn, Bea, you truly are an ignoramus.
Nice comment, Olga.
El siete, yes, apple is truly a scummy company. As of last month they are holding 158 billion in profits overseas. They had the most profitable quarter (q4) any company in the history of the world ever had. Let’s look at how. Their products are made by foxconn, a chinese slave labor outfit with 1.2 million slaves held in conditions so bad they had to put up nets to keep the slaves from committing suicide by jumping off the buildings. They lobby congress constantly for a tax holiday so they can bring that money home tax free.
In a normal world, that money would have been spread through the US economy through wages, taxes, dividends to stockholders, and apple would be a fine upstanding american company. Instead we allow them access to the greatest market in the world, and subsidize their customer base at taxpayer expense with a trillion dollars in student loans and 47 million SNAP recipients. The rest of the multinationals are no better. Peace
I have not been following this thread. I could post my opinions after observing the changes in my industry over the last 30 years, but since nobody here understands it, the context would be lost. I just wonder what will happen when driverless trucks are perfected. Somebody better invent a replicator.
Oh wait, it won’t matter after the US and Russia exchange nukes.
Truck drivers as the most prevalent current job in America … Bull Shit!
Of course what’s the most common job depends on how you define “job.”
Here’s the #1 dictionary defintion: “Job: A regular activity performed in exchange for payment.”
I say that today our nation’s #1 job is WELFARE. That is, getting money from the State.
The “regular activity” for this State payment job is doing nothing or droning. And the lay about payment is welfare benefits and other transfer payments.
I think that bankster bail outs, too big to fail banks, corporate and military spending fit into the equation but all’s getting a little too complex for my late night, wine-soaked brain. I’ll take that up later
Anyway the point is that … that… that the most prevalent job in America today is no job and getting something for nothing. Agree?
Jackson
You should go talk to your buddy Irak. This is part of the master plan. All these unemployed folks can be rounded up and sent over to the Middle East as cannon fodder for American freedom.
“Anyway the point is that … that… that the most prevalent job in America today is no job and getting something for nothing. Agree?”
—-Jackson of many titles
Don’t agree, but we’re getting there in 3….2….
I grew up worked on small farms. frequented mom and pop flying businesses. These folks were hard to control. Farmers payed everyday for instance and avoided tax. Fewer big corporate persons licensed by the “owner” {License is permission of the owner] are super effective tax machines. I studied corporate accounting recently over at the Community College, the only kind taught and the book right from the Rockefeller Center in New York, showed that if you are not careful your taxes can be over 70 percent and you can go broke. Premium stock holders get first dibs after prime creditors and commoners can lose entirely. Employees and customers a necessary pain in the ass but you can mostly keep the costs down there by tossing out some tasty tidbits to them now and then. Good deal too as the corporate license is relatively little and if all your plan looks good the shares you sell come right with the certificate so you can right away use the share holders money. Yeah, corporate “persons” who can act like a tax vacuum sure is more profitable than the old privately operated way. If big money and power is the goal in life corporations that exist and focus on profits for the shareholders do a good job of it. At least for the “owners” and “stake holders” often big banks. The creditor is the good guy here in this setup. Most truckers now are corporate too. Private folks, like the private farmers got pushed out.
@ llpoh
What are your thoughts concerning what Paul Craig Roberts has to say – in the interview I posted above – starting at the 15:03 mark.
Llpoh
Again, please provide ANYTHING that proves manufacturing GDP has been static. When a country has reserve currency, they don’t have to produce goods relative to GDP. It’s a free ride of sorts until it is no more.
The Free Trade farce does nothing for American economic stability or security ,as has been proven.
The driverless vehicles being tested by google and other megacorporations will soon replace human truck drivers.
How many angels are there on the head of a pin? Entertaining discussion, but the real game-changer was the meltdown of reactors at Fukushima March 11, 2011. North America, from coast to coast, is contaminated with fallout. The Pacific Ocean is dead. This is not being reported so that California and Mexico can still sell us produce with radioactive hot particles.
If the feds pass e-logging as mandatory, owner operators will be a thing of the past.
And all drivers will be foreigners who can’t speak english. Already trucking companies are bidding lower, using illegals to run their trucks and getting extra from the feds for hiring them (to make up the difference in being the low bidder)
And, outside the indisputable fact that government born stats have more often than not been proven to be have been jerryrigged for propaganda purposes , American job seekers now not only have the continuation of the loss of decent mfging jobs to contend with , but due to the two parties of traitors, those jobs that remain, in particular the tech industry, are billed filled by foreign worker with H-1B visas…….because theyr are no tech workers in ‘murica qualified..or so saying the duolpy of lying shit scum..and their bitches on the US Chamber of Commerce.
What they really mean to say is that there are no skilled tech workers willing to work for Dot-Head and Chi-Comm wages,and if employers want to pay near slave labor wages, they’ll have to import the slaves… long story short….Americans have no representatives in either party of corporate pawns..American workers be fucked.
Measuring the Quantity of Manufacturing GDP Is Distorted by High-Tech
Manufacturing is in the enviable position of spawning a new super fast–growing industry (when quality-adjusted), but the fact is that computer and electronic products’ value-added in dollars is only 1.5% of total GDP and 12.6% of overall manufacturing value-added. When this segment is removed from the quantity change in total GDP and overall manufacturing, the pace of manufacturing physical volume growth compared with that of the overall economy is substantially different.
http://www.manufacturingfacts.org/chart45.html
Fired Before Hired: How Corporations Rigged The Job Market And Killed The American Dream
Peter Cappelli, author of Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs, received an email from an employee who said their company accepted 25,000 applications for a single engineering job, and the human resources team said no one was qualified. Cappelli said, “Not being able or willing to pay the market price for talent does not constitute a shortage.”
A New York Times reporter wanted to find out if the skills gap was real. He visited the engineering technology program at Queensborough Community College in New York City. There are no excuses here. This isn’t medieval literature or art history. This is engineering. It is also a community college, which will soon become free if Obama has his way. In this particular tech program, the goal is to create manufacturing employees who can keep up in the era of automation. This is a textbook case for Obama, who said 80% of manufacturers have jobs they can’t fill. The National Association of Manufacturers estimates that there are 600,000 jobs waiting for anyone who has the right skills.
Well – what they really meant was the right skills and the desperation to work for McJob wages.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-28/fired-hired-how-corporations-rigged-job-market-and-killed-american-dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM
Truckers! Those fuckers can’t get anything anywhere on time, let alone all in one piece! Meth-heads on speed.
“Turning us into a nation of consumers….” Not exactly sure how that works: ship off the high-paying manufacturing jobs to low labor-cost nations leaves a nation of low paid service workers who cannot afford to be consumers.
It is really about FLEECING AMERICA then moving on to the next victim to fleece. Now I notice that Canada has the same parasite condition arising as does Australia.
The only problem? America’s Founders left us a tool to overthrow the Yoke, the infestation of Parasites, and I would submit we haven’t forgot how to use those tools.
I don’t see a category for welfare recipient; the dole.
You know, the ripened fruits of LBJ’s (not so) Great Society whom can be witnessed by the millions upon millions in every metropolis, city, town and village across the looted plain.
(AKA) The bastardization of America.
Administrator,
No, no, no… you’ve got it all wrong!
The MASTER PLAN is that the Free Shit Army stays here, in the U.S. Whether it’s in subsidized housing in Wildwood, on the streets of the 30 Blocks, in Ferguson, or wherever else, the vote-for-money, a meal, and mooching millions will get to stay at home. They’re indispensible to the State as both victims and voters.
So who’ll get rounded up and sent over to the Middle East as cannon fodder for American freedom? Any young man and others who are at risk for thinking for themselves and rejecting the patriotic and polical myths and NeoCon aganda, that’s who.
That’s the plan, man, as I hear it from IraK. I’d try to think this through myself but I’m fearful that even at my age I might get swept up in the Purge if I weren’t a good follower.
I’m sure the rabid capitalists see nothing wrong with this picture…of course they would just explain it away as the truck drivers being ‘too lazy’ to advance themselves…
Olga, I was too brief yesterday, I’d read before that Bush 2 was to be our last repub prez, that his coalition was onetime thing. PCR explains that the demos have lost their traditional base and are now competing with repubs for the same funds from the 1%. regardless of who votes for what party, the monied folks will be represented. the middle class has been fucked by jobs sent abroad, the money games are designed to bleed the country dry. the stock market is a farce, the price of gold is manipulated top protect the dollar and the financial landscape borders on the surreal.
“You are a true believer, blessings of the State, blessings of the masses. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy.”
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