> The US is actively abandoning its goal of being the land of opportunity, and it makes me sad. Yes - this is active, but not irrational, because this is a rev

> The US is actively abandoning its goal of being the land of opportunity, and it makes me sad. Yes - this is active, but not irrational, because this is a reversion to mercantilism of the earlier centuries (it is not a conservative position, but a regressive one). The only people welcome to this country are "growing things in the ground". Because if the only thing that you consider to be productive is farming (as in production == farming), then the whole social requirements of education, research or specialization is irrelevant. And in fact, those people are a drain on the food security and profitability of the extractive industry of farming. Maybe because it is fresh, I was struck by a bit of the lyrics from Hamilton as being a direct reference to this thought that the rest of America is just "moving money around" in the service industries (even the industry, where every stage is just making something from somebody else's raw material, till you get to the Appalachian coal mines). Don't tax the South 'cause we got it made in the shade / In Virginia, we plant seeds in the ground / We create, you just wanna move our money around / This financial plan is an outrageous demand