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The Soviet Union depended on an enormous laboring class to meet its production needs; the whole point is that we no longer do.
by superuser2 11y ago
The Soviet Union depended on an enormous laboring class to meet its production needs; the whole point is that we no longer do.
- johndevor 11y agoWe are not there yet. I agree it will happen, the question is when.
- danjayh 11y agoOh, we still do, they're just in second and third world countries. The author of this article focused on service industries that require a physical presence in the local area ... and did not address outsourcing. I think that one likely outcome of this law will be that people will find creative new ways to move work to lower cost locales.
- tim333 11y agoMaybe it we is the US its true but if you look at Germany they are a net exporter of manufactured goods and probably have an agricultural surplus so it's quite possible to get by in a modern economy.