[Homestead] Censorship coming
Clansgian at wmconnect.com
Clansgian at wmconnect.com
Sun Jul 19 12:12:49 EDT 2009
> >Hey James, did you hear that Balmer said that if the Cap & Trade is
> passed that Microsoft is going to ship it's job's overseas!!!
Heard that indeed. But it's even stickier than that. Several outfits are
threatening to launch feasible operating systems (such as Google's Chrome)
next year which bypass MicroSoft completely and which will be completely free
and open source.
So not only will Microsoft ship their jobs overseas, it will likely be a
remnant of jobs at best.
I anticipate that Obama is going to be successful in getting most of his
'druthers passed, and this includes Cap and Trade.
Our problem, says I, is that the economic (and social) paradigm has
shifted. This shift was inevitable and is irrespective of who's in office and what
their policies are. What appears to be gloom and doom is simply our
collective inability or reluctance to shift with the shifting times. That is, if
we expect to get and keep an industrial job (or cubicle dwelling, paper
shifting, job tossing about bags of air), put away enough money for a
comfortable retirement at 55, make money "investing" or in flipping houses .... then
times indeed are going to be hard. We're never going back to that.
Soon or late we must adapt to the changing economic reality, and I mean
changing for good (in both senses as in "forever" and "to our benefit"), Those
of us who have always lived in remote areas, close to the bone, and by our
own wits are already 85% of the way there.
I don't mean by this that everyone must become organic farmers or
homesteaders, although a lot more poeple will have to and in fact want to considering
the alternatives. It's just that I think the new city life will be very
different than it is now and the suburban and exurban life will just about
disappear altogether.
James
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