tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post455786854157256579..comments2023-10-20T05:51:51.625-04:00Comments on The THINK 3 INSTITUTE: The rich should help, but ask nicelySamuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-9106249215983226162014-01-08T18:31:59.272-05:002014-01-08T18:31:59.272-05:00As long as we allow to exist among us those who fe...As long as we allow to exist among us those who feel they are entitled to great wealth and spread harm and misery in their efforts to get it, we will never become a better society, we will only continue to spiral down into oblivion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-12775594087461635502014-01-07T18:33:04.109-05:002014-01-07T18:33:04.109-05:00Do we want to survive as a society or die as indiv...Do we want to survive as a society or die as individuals? That is really the question that needs to be answered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-43273416657823864912014-01-05T01:48:47.281-05:002014-01-05T01:48:47.281-05:00The idea of more education and "investing in ...The idea of more education and "investing in job-creating activities" or something like that is repeated over and over. I just can't shake the feeling that there is a massive disconnect between that ideology and reality. Exactly what job-creating activities are we talking about? Exactly what education is needed? America's service sector is huge, not going away and it creates poverty-level jobs for the most part. Despite the low income, millions of adults now rely on poverty-level jobs as their careers. Is the proposal to have everyone train to be an electrical engineer, computer scientist and other high tech whiz? Not everyone is cut out for that, the economy could not absorb that and who would be left to flip burgers? Something fundamentally different from the 1950s to 1990s is going on with our economy and, absent something really new and compelling, it feels downright ominous and permanent. <br /><br />Nothing I hear from anyone gets at addressing the fundamental disconnect between how one creates good jobs in our complex economy in the face of ferocious global competition in essentially everything. None of our competitors are going away. Our political leadership is ossified, paralyzed and distracted by their petty partisan constraints, disputes and agendas. What is disconcerting is an almost complete lack of concrete, clearly articulated ideas to fundamentally change things. Just saying we need to create good jobs will not create any jobs, good, bad or indifferent. <br /><br />The standard ideologically-based solutions of the left (more education) and the right (less taxes and regulation) do not address the disconnect in any way that is meaningful as far as I can tell.<br /><br />It sometimes seems that we are as a society fresh out of new ideas. Then other times it seems that there are ideas but our way of addressing them as a society is inept, maybe because there is no longer a consensus about much of anything.calmoderatenoreply@blogger.com