One of the few things I like about Tillerson is he referred to Climate Change as an engineering problem. That’s a good mindset to have in my opinion.
We can’t just shut down every single thing that impacts the climate. We have to understand how much we are actually contributing to the problem.
Hopefully with an engineering mindset, we will actively try to fix what we can on our end. Tillerson is one of the first people (that I’ve heard) in a position like he was (CEO of an oil company ) to say something along those lines.
In reality, these retail jobs mean very little unless the positions have just been empty to increase profitability.
The jobs that matter are producing something for consumption outside of the US, or to replace imports consumed within. Doubtful of a grocery chain.
A disturbing trend in that industry is the proliferation of store brands, which are often sourced overseas.
Thank you! I think it would be nice to not acknowledge race but it’s ultimately not possible (at least at this point in time) due to implicit bias.
To most people of color, when a person says “I don’t see race,” to us, it signals that they are unaware of their implicit bias, or systems where race is treated unfairly (like sentencing in the criminal justice system, can cite if needed).
I mean we are only 50 years removed from the Civil rights Era, those people haven’t even died yet. Those biases will be around for a while.
I do agree the media fans those flames, from both conservative and liberal media. But, If we were to do a media blackout…I think it would simply be like a pre-Internet-cable-TV world…we would be unaware of things that take place.
Our current problem is we’re hyper aware of every acute incident. This has fanned racial tensions more than anything, but we can’t count on journalists to be fair in their reporting.
I think we as a people will change before they do. Like the place you live.
We don’t have to export goods, but we do have to export services or natural resources.
See I never understand how something as basic as earning from outside of your circle is confused with trading dollars within it, as a means to increasing wealth.
An easy example for the readers (not you):
Household treco trades the same 100$ among its 4 members for 10 years. Neither producing anything for anyone nor buying from outside. 10 years after beginning (barring taxes) treco has same 100$.
Contrast with same time period. Father treco earns 10$ selling goods outside and buys 6$ from outside each year. Barring taxes, treco has 140$ after 10 years.
Agreed. We do lead the world in service exports and, IIRC, it’s not even close. I think it would do us good to find a better way to get more American’s involved in fulfilling careers related to the export of services as opposed to trying to revert back to manufacturing.
I have a bit of a different take on natural resources. The US should lead the world in replacing them with something else. We can pump out more oil and flood the market, sure. I don’t really have a problem with that, but it should be a temporary means to employ people while coming up with a viable replacement. Fossil fuels are the past.
While I agree with your sentiment, the services exports are all over the board in employee compensation.
Travel services - $173BB - fancy name for hospitality industry which next to retail at bottom
Royalty/Licensing - $128BB - likely very little employment but probably good pay
Financial Services - $122BB - probably high paying
Besides not everyone can be a bond trader selling US funds to EU and ME sovereigns. Some guys need to build houses, infrastructure, consumer items. Even if automated production. Particularly automated - we are just giving money away, to have foreigners sit at a control panel watching machines build things.
Absolutely. I don’t think everyone is geared towards sitting at a desk and managing mutual funds. However, what if we revolutionize the energy sector with, for example, something like the Tesla home battery’s and corner the international market in both manufacturing and servicing them? So, all those folks that are predisposed to build things might not actually get to build things, but many would still get to use their hands fixing things.
I just firmly believe the days of building things, ie assembly line work, are in the past. Automation has changed the game, but we are a long way away from computers being able to troubleshoot and fix problems on the spot.
I prefer states take care of themselves as the founders intended. Policing a city or even a state is not an enumerated power and it’ll be a 10th amendment challenged in court.
Oh yes I forgot about gas prices. I haven’t been keeping up with that lately. I remember a while ago the reason they were cheap was the middle east was trying to shutdown our production by making it unprofitable to keep up with their prices, is that still a thing?
