Originally Posted by Happiness

You got that right.

Okham got it wrong. This isnt a progression of economy at all- we still have very real and very present necessities that can only be met with agrarian, industrial, technical and other kinds of output. We are just passing the buck, letting others handle those kinds of jobs, regarding them as inferior. This is where illegal immigration and outsourcing come in. If we move in the same direction as we are, aiming for the pinnacles of innovation, who will do the other jobs? Who will work at the assembly lines, pick the fruit, haul the construction work?

Will these "mean" jobs be given to uneducated low-income foreigners or society's dropouts and motivation-starved deadbeats? Wont this just create a caste system?

To rid ourselves of this will be a tremendous problem and it might as well turn out to be America's downfall if left unchecked.

What led to the first period of America's explosion and growth was a set of general societal values. Without that our youngsters will continue their parasitic, victim-mentality, hedonistic development, becoming perpetual consumers while the role of money-making, success-securing producers will go to others outside the US.

And the moment we run out of money to pay for our ravenous consumption, we will be turned aside and thrown away.

This is a product of a political, social and moral mishandling of America, brought on by our overprotective yet paradoxically laissez-faire lifestyle.