What Way for the Stimulus? Post-Industrial America vs. Neo-Industrial America
3rd June 2009
Today, the rivalry is not between the champions of an industrial America and an agrarian America. Rather, it is a rivalry between the champions of a neo-industrial America, which includes world-class industrial agriculture, and a post-industrial America, in which most if not all manufacturing and even agriculture will be outsourced. In this formulation, post-industrial America emerges as a consumerist paradise populated by investors, executives of multinational companies, rentiers, realtors, government and nonprofit bureaucrats, and a supporting cast of service sector proletarians including nursing aides, nannies, gardeners, security guards and restaurant and hotel workers.
June 3rd, 2009 at 19:55
Funny, how no matter what the “official” topic of debate is, there seems to be consensus on taxing “the rich” to fund the items in question.