Reply #15: Bankers and Many Med Workers Will Be Outsourced [View All]

Except for nurses, that is. Gotta have someone to change the bed pans. Only they'll be working longer hours with less pay. If that's imaginable.

Remember all those infomercials about training schools to be truck drivers and air-conditioner repairers - those will go by the wayside, too, as the hourly wage shrinks and shrinks in comparison to cost of living.

As for those lower and middle class folks who bought into the idea of upward mobility, well .. sorry. You can't just go to college anymore, get your degree and imagine you'll be set.

You'll have to go back, and back, and back, and learn to view everyone around you as competition. Better start watching Survivor and all the similarly-themed reality TV shows if you want to learn how to get along in the Brave New World.

There will be one way left of achieving the so-called American Dream - being your own boss - be a winner on the stock market. In order to thrive, you will have to be an accomplice to those who are hellbent on crushing the soul of the human race.

And the so-called "Creative Class," the generation that's being told they will be able to support themselves and thrive and be soooo valued by using their creativity and brain-power in their careers? There is no bigger lie I can imagine right about now.

In yesterday's NYT, there was a story about how many widget-building major corporations are now outsourcing their product designs. The article interviewed and quoted a good handful of management executives and not even one engineer. The "creative class" will end up much like the family dog in Stephen King's novel Tommyknockers. if they're stupid enough to buy into the hype.