RE: Ford cancels plans to build in Mexico, will invest in Michigan
January 5, 2017 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2017 at 4:46 pm by vorlon13.)
KMart/Sears is a fucking dinosaur (don't know about Macy's haven't set foot in one since '74).
Amazon, Ebay etal can wipe the floor with brick and mortar retailers. Cutting overhead in the buying selling world means those people can be doing more useful/productive things than changing the tape in cash registers and painting stripes in mall parking lots.
Even the Obama administration refused to subsidize buggy whips.
And this saw cuts all the way around too, I've decried loosing neighbors in this rural wasteland I'm stuck in. As farms get bigger and grow more commodities with bigger equipment and less manpower, cheap food is available to more people. US at one time was like 75% rural population, nobody wants to go back to that. And what happened to all those farm kids that went to the cities? They work in factories and fast food, offices and health care, all shit that needs done.
If Sears and Krapmart don't need scores of people running their archaic business plans because they are loosing money, well, welcome to the club. Out here in the countryside we've been living that for 100 years, and the nation/world prospered as it happened.
In Council Bluffs along the viaduct south of down town you can see old paint on big brick buildings, (International Harvester Company), since repurposed as shops and loft condos, and those buildings used to be factories for making tractors and farm implements. In a country of millions of acres of farm land farmed with horses, tractors, even the little tiny ones of my youth were a tremendous improvement, but without horses, farms needed less people to work. My 1958 tractor had 39 horsepower (when new, I'd bet it's 25 these days) and grandpa thought it was as modern as a rocket ship. The newest tractor on this place has 300 hp and can pull huge implements across the field so much faster.
But all the people this place supported are almost all gone now, I can write checks, and my farm manager makes the decisions and sits in his air conditioned tractor cab and listens to satellite radio as he tills 100 acres a day. The people this farm supported at one time might have been nearly 100, now it's less than 10. A large corporate farm organization could buy me out, and farm all my land by adding 1 or 2 employees to the payroll. And the economics of that are pushing in that direction. After I retire, I won't care.
And all those 'ghosts' of people who could be here farming the old way, by hand and with horses, aren't dead, they're city folks now, teaching classes, forming tech companies, dental assistants and truckers.
Have a little assurance nothing 'new' is happening, the system, such as it is, has been going along a long time. By and large those still here in the sticks and those that are in town with ties back to this place are doing vastly better than our grandparents could have ever dreamed of.
Amazon, Ebay etal can wipe the floor with brick and mortar retailers. Cutting overhead in the buying selling world means those people can be doing more useful/productive things than changing the tape in cash registers and painting stripes in mall parking lots.
Even the Obama administration refused to subsidize buggy whips.
And this saw cuts all the way around too, I've decried loosing neighbors in this rural wasteland I'm stuck in. As farms get bigger and grow more commodities with bigger equipment and less manpower, cheap food is available to more people. US at one time was like 75% rural population, nobody wants to go back to that. And what happened to all those farm kids that went to the cities? They work in factories and fast food, offices and health care, all shit that needs done.
If Sears and Krapmart don't need scores of people running their archaic business plans because they are loosing money, well, welcome to the club. Out here in the countryside we've been living that for 100 years, and the nation/world prospered as it happened.
In Council Bluffs along the viaduct south of down town you can see old paint on big brick buildings, (International Harvester Company), since repurposed as shops and loft condos, and those buildings used to be factories for making tractors and farm implements. In a country of millions of acres of farm land farmed with horses, tractors, even the little tiny ones of my youth were a tremendous improvement, but without horses, farms needed less people to work. My 1958 tractor had 39 horsepower (when new, I'd bet it's 25 these days) and grandpa thought it was as modern as a rocket ship. The newest tractor on this place has 300 hp and can pull huge implements across the field so much faster.
But all the people this place supported are almost all gone now, I can write checks, and my farm manager makes the decisions and sits in his air conditioned tractor cab and listens to satellite radio as he tills 100 acres a day. The people this farm supported at one time might have been nearly 100, now it's less than 10. A large corporate farm organization could buy me out, and farm all my land by adding 1 or 2 employees to the payroll. And the economics of that are pushing in that direction. After I retire, I won't care.
And all those 'ghosts' of people who could be here farming the old way, by hand and with horses, aren't dead, they're city folks now, teaching classes, forming tech companies, dental assistants and truckers.
Have a little assurance nothing 'new' is happening, the system, such as it is, has been going along a long time. By and large those still here in the sticks and those that are in town with ties back to this place are doing vastly better than our grandparents could have ever dreamed of.
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