Observation from abroad

A revealing cultural difference, observed by expat Mark Simon, cited by Kirn.

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Been 30 yrs in Asia. Always amazed how in US, who we consider elites, the professional class, are usually regarded as hired hands by an Asia that makes things.

Education is greatly respected, and employed, but 2nd to those who build/manufacture, execute the business.

If you make something, from turning out a newspaper to making pies, you have a process that can proof itself from the diversions of elites. We need to make more stuff in US.

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This used to be our attitude before 1970. We respected producers, not bankers. Industry had deep experience in PROCESSES and MATERIALS, and even the bankers understood the value of a STOREHOUSE OF SKILL AND TOOLS.

A long history of experience with a process is hard to “disruptively innovate”. Especially true in agriculture and food, where many of the processes require years of crop growth, livestock growth, aging and fermenting. The Dust Bowl happened because Wilson tried to disrupt farming with an influx of inexperienced would-be farmers who grabbed up cheap (poor) land and tried to maximize yield in a year. They destroyed the topsoil.

Deepstate started the change in 1946 when they declared that we must NEVER AGAIN have another FDR. They began propaganda for college and abstraction. They transformed the world’s maker to the world’s banker.

Nixon accelerated the change when he surrendered to China in the 70s, and then Wall Street took over all business around 1980 and sent both the factories and the PROCESSES to China. We trained thousands of Chinese engineers and scientists, who then took their learning and began doing their own engineering and design.

The effect is the same as a prolonged war plus sanctions by China, EXCEPT that China didn’t start the war or impose the sanctions. We started the war against ourselves ON BEHALF of China and to BENEFIT China. Perhaps China exerted some influence on the traitorous politicians and billionaires who sacrificed us. If there was any influence, it was non-mandatory. The traitors were not FORCED AT GUNPOINT to destroy their own country and hand the assets to the enemy. They decided for their own evil reasons.