Re:Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Ham...
by eli_gottlieb on Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:29AM
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Economics doesn't work that way. The profit margins of the American capitalist may have been higher when the Chinese were poor, but actual total world productivity (the amount of stuff available to share around) has gone up as the Chinese have gotten richer. The development of the Third World is a positive-sum, ahaha, development.
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Re:Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Ham...
by NTDF9 on Thursday April 23, 2015 @02:32PM
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Economics does work that. The amount of resources are limited by:
a. Quantity of raw materials available for use
b. Skill (labor and/or machines) to convert those raw materials into something useful.
So while America had a lot of a and b, the rest of the world is having that now too. So America has lesser of a and b as a proportion of total a an b