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What will happen?

It's already happening. The wealthiest have their places secured (with police, firefighter, security guards that controls who gets in the secured place). They have to secure themselves from the rest of those "Animals" surrounding them.

While the poor goes to WalMart because he can't afford the other places. The rich does'nt have problems. He can buy whatever he wants, eat whatever he wants. And if he has health problem he takes his plane to go to the country where he'll get the right treatment.

There are some that still see the world through a children's eyes. Or they try to make you believe that the situation is not so bad. we're too negative. Who should we believe? never forget the hidden agendas. If you job is to sell stuff you won't have many customers if you don't tell them nice things.

Just recently in the province of Quebec they tried to get the union to get into a WallMart. It did'nt happen. By a small majority. By the way WallMart said that if the union got into their store they would close the store. Could it be possible to have a better argument to control employees who probably have no hope of finding another job in their locality. When asked about the salary An "Associate" said that her conditions were not that bad. She said that considering everything she earns around $13 per hour. She said that there are some that only get $8 but those probably don't deserve more because they don't make the efforts to get the bonuses.

In Canada with $8 per hour you don't live you survive.

To me this looks like a downward spiral.

In life there are two kinds of people. Those that control and those that are controlled. When reading a comment it helps to know on which side of the fence is the person making the comments.

I have my business. I'm the boss. So whatever the comments I make I don't have to worry about what the boss will think about what I just said publicly <vbg>

I don't make as much money as many here but I still have that freedom of speech. To me it's still worth something.

That is not the case with the majority. They have to filter what they say to be in line with the train of thought of their employer.

So they keep selling their stuff.



>I have exactly the same fear as you express here, Tracy... one day there will only be McJobs or no jobs in our slice of the world.
>We'll always need delivery people and garbage people and sales people and medical people and teachers and maintenance (roads, buildings, etc) people and firefighting people and police (probably way more than now :( ) but not much else because ALL other work is being done in China or ???. I mean, what does come after the "knowledge economy"?
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>Now with everyone competing for all the jobs listed earlier, most will still be unemployed. So how will we pay for the police and firefighters and teachers with people paying no taxes (unemployed) or McJob tax rates? The answer is, we won't UNLESS everyone agrees to work for a coupla bucks a day. Millionaires will each hire several but that really won't help overall.
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>I'm afraid that I don't like what I see for the future allowing that things proceed as they are now doing.