Lost Or Unrecognized Multi-National Economic Principles And Slavery

Robert L. Kocher ^ | October 27, 2002 | Robert L. Kocher

[Red Jones]

This article I know is very long, but it is excellent.

[Red Jones]

fyi

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Bump for RLK and to read later.

[rohry]

"This article I know is very long..."

This is not an article, it is a book...

I would love to read it but I don't have enough paper in my printer to print it out...

People need to make a point in 3-5 pages on this forum or it will not be read...

[Red Jones]

bump

[Red Jones]

Contratulations RLK. This is excellent work. In my mind it demonstrates clearly how some important paradigms we think with today about globalism and international trade are simply false.

[SauronOfMordor]

FASCINATING

[Red Jones]

This article has enough in it to be the basics of a graduate level course in economics which is what I think might be planned for it. It should excite the intellectuals IMHO as is. With a lot of work and more research it could be developed into an interesting book. But to market it to the masses it needs to be re-written in a very shortened form.

[SauronOfMordor]

As I originally wrote this particular passage, President Clinton was negotiating expanded free trade with the mainland Chinese. Negotiating is not the proper word. That there was negotiation was a pretense and a deception. While there may have been some outward show of toughness and grumbling, Clinton wanted to do it or he wouldn't have invited the Chinese premier to come here. And for China it's like dying and going to heaven. It's going to tear hell out of this economy and this country for reasons already explained, and the Chinese know it. Given the pattern of destructiveness seen in everything else Clinton did, Clinton, even at his feeble intelligence level, also probably knew it. When the agreement is concluded, we will remedy the past deficiencies of an adversary, and create a mighty ideological and military opponent who even now is testing long range missiles. (Please notice the same people who are adamantly in favor of gun control over here do not apply the same logic to Marxist missile development.)

[per loin]

Excellent in all except offering some pathway out of our impending economic doom.

[rdb3]

Many southern whites were worse off economically than most Black slaves. Before you seize on that and laugh, think about it. The South was the last place any white person would go to find economic opportunity. In 1860, out of a Southern population of 9,000,000 people, 4,000,000 were slaves. Most work of any significance was done by slaves and there was no way to take a job and make a start to work your way up. Unless you had enough money to buy land and fifty slaves, you were at an economic dead end and would starve before finding any opportunity in the Old South. Slavery was economically disastrous to white people. The only opportunity for a white person born without inherited position was to head North.

Wait a second! You mean to tell me that the statement, "[t]he North was jealous of Southern prosperity..." is either a myth or propaganda?

Wow!

[SauronOfMordor]

Note: Whatever happened to the important word "manufacturing?" When one puts these three paragraphs together it's seen that what is being re-formed is essentially a downgraded company and an industry being gutted into becoming an empty shell with a clique of executives making money through shuffling around work and products done on plantations in other nations. "Very few people in the world can build an airplane and make it safe." Yes, and soon Boeing will no longer be one of them. And neither will America. These people aren't building airplanes or anything else. They are basically a breed of incompetent useless bullshitters who don't want responsibility for serious concrete production, who have found a place to hide and are making quick profits from destroying the economy needed to maintain the company. The bullcrap part of the business will be kept here while substance will be let go. This entire nation is on the way to being gutted of substance.

250 years ago, about 95% of the human race was engaged in agriculture. Then came the Industrial Revolution, steam-power, followed by the internal-combustion engine. By the late 20th Century, less than 5% of the population was growing the food for the other 95%. It came about because a skilled farmer with tractors, combines, etc could out-produce an army of peasants

We are on the edge of another fundamental transformation. At the moment, semi-skilled Chinese workers are cheaper than semi-skilled American labor. Within ten years, computer-controlled robotic machinery will be cheaper than even semi-skilled slave-labor Third-world workers. In that environment, the only people in a position to create value will be engineers and designers

[SauronOfMordor]

and I meant to add: ... and we are killing the engineering field in the US with the H1B program. When the only people who add value are engineers and designers, and they are mostly from Asia, what happens to America then?

[rdb3]

In that environment, the only people in a position to create value will be engineers and designers

Question: Just who do you think will constitute the majority of these "engineers and designers?" I tend to agree with you, that's why I ask.

[Willie Green]

Thanks for the "ping", Red.
One of the few really lengthy articles I've seen posted that merits reading in its entirety.
But its also very meaty, so I've bookmarked for future reference.
Its gonna take several readings to absorb it all, but it'll be worth it!

;^)

[calenel]

So, essentially, we think we have enslaved the rest of the world for a few worthless pieces of paper, but in reality we have sold the Golden Goose for a few omlets?

[Red Jones]

bump

[SauronOfMordor]

your question and my addendum crossed each other

[rdb3]

I can't disagree with you at all.

All throughout undergrad and graduate school, we were inundated with foreign students in the field. While discussing majors with others, I always got the "crazy" look from my peers be they black or white Americans when I stated mine.

Sad to say, but I always felt "out of place" when I attended class. Go figure.

[RLK]

This article has enough in it to be the basics of a graduate level course in economics which is what I think might be planned for it. It should excite the intellectuals IMHO as is. With a lot of work and more research it could be developed into an interesting book. But to market it to the masses it needs to be re-written in a very shortened form.

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This is an offshoot of a comprehensive course at the graduate level or above which now euns about 1,000 pages and at times touchs on economics. The series has been running at zolatimes2.com for nearly four years. About 40% of my readers are M. D.s or Ph.D.s. There is another 30-50 page paper that goes with this, but which isn't on paper yet. It isn't easy reading.

This particular paper is at odds with my editor's economic views, so I am constructing my own web site to archive it.

RLK