Lord Darkstorm
Sage
How many kids go to college now? If you don't go, people assume you are ignorant and would have to work in a factory. A bit generalized, but working in a factory isn't thought of as a 'good' job anymore. So, if more of the people are going to college to avoid working in a job that requires some form of manual labor, where do you find people to do it? There used to be vocational schools that tried to teach trade skills to kids that didn't really have the ambition to go an academic route. Television and movies rarely show people without a college education in a good light. How many of the kids who went to college would take a job at a factory? Or in construction?
Another thing to think about. What did people 50 years ago have? Home, car, tv, clothes, ect. No smart phones, or cell phones, long distance cost enough there were fewer multihour conversations, no internet, computers, cable tv, and all the other things we take for granted. All these toys have a cost, and how many of you really consider them something you could give up?
Society changes, and as we add more cost to our lives, we need more money to afford them all. So we want the tv at a price we can afford, and if they were made in America, they would cost three to four times more than they do now. Most people would be complaining at the high cost of tv's, or phones, or whatever they are used to getting for cheap now. If most of the population is trained to do some form of intellectual job...who does that leave to do the work?
How do you go back and undo the years of bias we allow others to place on us? Children are taught more by the tv than parents (yes, there are exceptions, but how many hours of tv do most kids watch today?). What do they learn? What is someone on the other end of the tv teaching them? "Buy the latest gadget, it's cool, you want it. You have to have it!"
Protest get some attention, but then it's over. Do the politicians care? Not really. The problem starts with who we choose to put in the government. The media tells us who would be best for us, or we pick the one who is the smoothest talker (which anyone who has talked to a used car salesman should know not to believe), or some other superficial thing that has nothing to do with what kind of person they are electing. What do we end up with? The best liers in the country. They control the education system, which if you think about it, despite the money being pumped into it, fails more often than it works. If it weren't the case, why do all the politicians send their kids to private schools?
Change has to start with people actually looking at the people they are voting for based on what they are, not on what they say. What they have done in their life will tell you what they will most likely do. If we started there, then there might be a chance at fixing it.
Another thing to think about. What did people 50 years ago have? Home, car, tv, clothes, ect. No smart phones, or cell phones, long distance cost enough there were fewer multihour conversations, no internet, computers, cable tv, and all the other things we take for granted. All these toys have a cost, and how many of you really consider them something you could give up?
Society changes, and as we add more cost to our lives, we need more money to afford them all. So we want the tv at a price we can afford, and if they were made in America, they would cost three to four times more than they do now. Most people would be complaining at the high cost of tv's, or phones, or whatever they are used to getting for cheap now. If most of the population is trained to do some form of intellectual job...who does that leave to do the work?
How do you go back and undo the years of bias we allow others to place on us? Children are taught more by the tv than parents (yes, there are exceptions, but how many hours of tv do most kids watch today?). What do they learn? What is someone on the other end of the tv teaching them? "Buy the latest gadget, it's cool, you want it. You have to have it!"
Protest get some attention, but then it's over. Do the politicians care? Not really. The problem starts with who we choose to put in the government. The media tells us who would be best for us, or we pick the one who is the smoothest talker (which anyone who has talked to a used car salesman should know not to believe), or some other superficial thing that has nothing to do with what kind of person they are electing. What do we end up with? The best liers in the country. They control the education system, which if you think about it, despite the money being pumped into it, fails more often than it works. If it weren't the case, why do all the politicians send their kids to private schools?
Change has to start with people actually looking at the people they are voting for based on what they are, not on what they say. What they have done in their life will tell you what they will most likely do. If we started there, then there might be a chance at fixing it.