re: Back to Work, Gramps!re: "The truth is we can't afford to allow businesses to export jobs to countries that don't have comparable laws and institutions to ours. If we continue to, we will soon end up in a similar position to theirs."
Why, I think it's called comparative advantage. Also the accounting side (e.g. creating money) isn't the hard part but rather motivating behaviors to actually provide the services is. If all our workers are busy manufacturing toys so McDonald's can sell hamburgers nobody will be available to take of Grandma and her hip. Most people don't give a shit about your grandma either so it becomes a trick to make them think they are serving my, myself, and I when they provide her with the services she needs. Or maybe instead of exporting jobs we trade our Grandma's for the world's high productivity workers? Let the Chinese take care of Grandma and will design and manufacture innovative McToys?
re: Back to Work, Gramps!"Let you mom live w/you when dad dies (or vice-versa). Here is something so old fashioned it needs to come back to mainstream again."
That certainly helps mom (and the rest of us taxpayers) while she is healthy. Presumes also that she had a kid, and that kid is employed, and can afford a home with enough room for her, etc. Percentage is a lot lower than 100% on that.
But how in the hell does the equation close when she falls and breaks her hip and needs some costly medical care, and someone has to be there all day to help her get to the toilet?
How the hell do you pay for mom when your employer sends your job to places like China and India?
These countries don't have social security, or national health care, or unemployment, or welfare, or military spending, to speak of.
The truth is we can't afford to allow businesses to export jobs to countries that don't have comparable laws and institutions to ours. If we continue to, we will soon end up in a similar position to theirs.
Where only the very rich are able to take care of their moms.
I choose to have a society where the rich are less rich and the poor are less poor. Not forced equality aka communism, but not un-controlled capitalism either.
Why, I think it's called comparative advantage. Also the accounting side (e.g. creating money) isn't the hard part but rather motivating behaviors to actually provide the services is. If all our workers are busy manufacturing toys so McDonald's can sell hamburgers nobody will be available to take of Grandma and her hip. Most people don't give a shit about your grandma either so it becomes a trick to make them think they are serving my, myself, and I when they provide her with the services she needs. Or maybe instead of exporting jobs we trade our Grandma's for the world's high productivity workers? Let the Chinese take care of Grandma and will design and manufacture innovative McToys?