I think the more concerning thing is his explanation that workers in Mexico are so exploitable. 80% lower wages and very low rates of absenteeism and turnover. One might look at that and figure that US workers are just lazier. Another way to consider it is that US workers aren't as easy to hold hostage. Either way, it's an advantage that we cannot compete against and cannot fight the way Trump proposed during his campaign-- with crippling tariffs. I think the US is entering a new phase in our history whether we want to or not, and the sooner we acknowledge that the sooner we can start to figure out how to deal with it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
