>Moving information around is how you can use your Idaho bank card in Bangalore. It doesn't make your bank worth less than Juanito the beet farmer in Brazil. T

>Moving information around is how you can use your Idaho bank card in Bangalore. It doesn't make your bank worth less than Juanito the beet farmer in Brazil. Thank you for proving my point. Without Juanito the beet farmer, and the stereotypical mid-western farmer or Texan oil-man being efficient and extracting a profit from their activities, there is no surplus. Without the beets (and wheat,and beef, etc) none of us get fed. Without piles of invested long-term capital from capital markets you don't have trans-ocean cables, and without that you don't have any way of talking from Bangalore to Idaho. Without the mines to dig up the minerals you don't have planes, and without oil wells you don't have fuel, without pilots and baggage handlers you don't get to go to Bangalore. So you wouldn't need your bankcard. The whole reason we can actually get to Bangalore to use our bank card is because those in primary production do it efficiently enough that not all of us are involved in doing it. That's the surplus production (and thus, wealth) that allows us to do these things. Look, I'm not anti-tech in the slightest - this is how I make my living. I'm just imploring tech people not to lose touch with that the industry really is, not to let your fee lose touch with the ground and the real economy that we're all here to support and improve.