I have working on the way the world is put together for lack of a more amusing thing to play with.
Our problem is lack of demand for objects we make.
Business in the last few decades has noticed that the old saw about selling the sizzle and not the steak is not only descriptive but exactly accurate.
Business has discovered products without production.
They are called software.
They are called outsourced.
They are called financial.
They make American Labour unemployed.
Craftsmen spend years learning the skills they will apply in the practice of their crafts.
Labour spends minutes learning what they need to know to do the job in hand.
The professions are white collar crafts.
There are fuzzy edges.
America has no place for expensive labour.
It thus is not a market for other than the cheapest and the most luxurious goods.
There is always a market for custom and beautiful crafts.
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No E.P.A.? Welcome Back Smog - Room for Debate
It’s actually the E.P.A.’s cautiousness, and not over-zealotry, where it has taken its lumps.I take no exception to this. -
What if Republicans Closed the E.P.A.? - Room for Debate
Many of the G.O.P. presidential candidates want to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency. What's the alternative to it?Let's start with the idea tha the people funding the Republican Party are concerned with private profit and not with the general health of the environment. Loop holes in the environmental protection are not there on purpose. Industry, specifically business is just going to have to find another way. -
College Doesn't Create Success - Room for Debate
Before long, spending four years in a lecture hall with a hangover will be revealed as an antiquated debt-fueled luxury good.If what the kid is doing is sitting in class with a hangover they might as well be working on a screen play or "resting". It will not cost tuition and frustrate the instructor. -
Fixing, Not Ending, Environmental Regulation - Room for Debate
Republican candidates need to articulate an alternative environmental vision more consonant with conservative values.I think there is none. -
E.P.A. Is an Underappreciated Cop on the Beat - Room for Debate
The E.P.A. has transformed our nation, strengthened our economy and improved our lives beyond measure.Agreed. I hate being told no but it works. So far there is another way. -
Wim Peeters
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No E.P.A.? Welcome Back Smog - Room for Debate
It’s actually the E.P.A.’s cautiousness, and not over-zealotry, where it has taken its lumps.Change or die.
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Hendrik
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No E.P.A.? Welcome Back Smog - Room for Debate
It’s actually the E.P.A.’s cautiousness, and not over-zealotry, where it has taken its lumps.Education is expensive.
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G.R.
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The Power Of Failure
William D. Cohan on Wall Street and Main Street.We wonder about the apparent failure to learn in our financial sector.We are looking in the wrong place for an indicator.Please observe the price of gold.Here is the financial sector's members protecting themselves against general failure of the monetary system.They have learned. The things they have learned are not what the rest of us want them to have learned.
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Chris
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The Power Of Failure
William D. Cohan on Wall Street and Main Street.Systemic failure and personal failure are very real and near on Wall Street. When failure come ones personal wealth must be shielded from risk.
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Spending Too Much Time and Money on Education? - Room for Debate
Given that high school and college are no longer a ticket to middle-class life, does our society devote too much time and money to education?
What I observe is that there is no sellers labour market. There are some jobs available to the low bidder. It is a buyers market.The crafts, the professions are crafts, are relatively healthy. After long learning there is work. Entry is not easy. There is no production work at American wages.
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