(August 17, 2015 at 9:36 am)Drich Wrote: Bottom line we need slavery.Technically, we don't need slavery.
Our current lifestyle is dependent on it, but lifestyles can change... they must change to accommodate the future worldwide educated workforce.
A decade ago, china was the grand destiny for outsourcing... nowadays, as the chinese become educated and wealthy, they are demanding better wages - and getting them, slowly and painfully, but getting them.
And some companies are (thinking of) moving on to some other place where the workforce is still cheap - Africa.... Give it a few decades and see what happens there, too.
Then, where can the big companies turn to? the moon?
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In the meantime, oil will become a scarcer commodity and its price too will rise... along with electricity... oh my...