Re: Interconnectedness of Employment Markets (was Bankruptcy

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On 4/03/06, L wrote:
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> You talk exactly like Karl Marx. I thought you were a capitalist azzzholle. This is
> the hypocrisy of the educated people. When they saw blue collar jobs getting
> automated, outsourced, etc., they didn't care because they were white collar works and
> the trends didn't affect them personally. Now that they see their own jobs getting
> outsourced, etc., they cry foul.

Guilty. Am I really a Marxist? I don't think so since my underlying philosophy has an
ethics of rational selfish interest and individualism. Up until three-and-a-half years
ago I would have said, "I'm a student of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism." Today I
claim to advocate a form of moderated capitalism that would include socialized medicine.
My view is that the primary factor that determines whether or not a nation enjoys
prosperity is the degree to which the general populace is rational and not merely whether
or not the nation is predominantly capitalist.

> I mentioned teaching before. why don't you consider that? do you know that in most
> countries, even advanced countries in Europe and Asia, you have to be in the top 1&37; of
> college grads to get a teaching job? You see, Americans are fuuuqqqing dumbbells.
> Complain as they do, most American lawyers couldn't even obtain middle school teaching
> jobs if they were to live in Finland, Japan, whatever.

Teaching is an option and I do like the idea of only having to work for 10 months per
year. I could then try to offer legal services on the side. I'm probably earning more
than I would as an entry-level teacher right now and I still hope to try working as a
full-time solo in the future.

I found your comments about teachers in Finland and Japan rather interesting. Top 1%,
really? I wonder if they receive good compensation.