Open Thread

I am willing to be paid to not farm (And I am well worth every penny) but it will have to wait.
I will be busy making the Rob reality show for Wasder. Wait till he gets my bill!!!!!!

“imagine how awesome it would be if it were like the jetsons where you just had to eat one pill a day and not rely on any kinds of food? it would be sold based on calories. after a year or so it would be generic and sold on the cheap, imagine getting all your nutrition for LESS than a cup of coffee a day?”

But what about the all of the empty storefronts that used to be restaurants and bodegas? Just fill them with beanie babies?

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*rob*

no way! we have enough annoying wannabe farmers as it is! we need to move beyond food, scientists are so slow in discovering new methods and means for nutrition.

imagine how awesome it would be if it were like the jetsons where you just had to eat one pill a day and not rely on any kinds of food? it would be sold based on calories. after a year or so it would be generic and sold on the cheap, imagine getting all your nutrition for LESS than a cup of coffee a day?

scientists have their heads shoved so far up their asses and are strongholded by the government that they can barely discover anything new anymore.

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (the founding father of microbiology) is probably turning in his grave right now at how unprogressive science is these days.

*rob*

Brooks’ entire piece is quite interesting, actually. He suggests, among other things, that we are following Great Britain’s lead such that “[a]fter decades of affluence, the U.S. has drifted away from the hardheaded practical mentality that built the nation’s wealth in the first place.”

Here’s another relevant quote:

“America’s brightest minds have been abandoning industry and technical enterprise in favor of more prestigious but less productive fields like law, finance, consulting and nonprofit activism. It would be embarrassing or at least countercultural for an Ivy League grad to go to Akron and work for a small manufacturing company. By contrast, in 2007, 58 percent of male Harvard graduates and 43 percent of female graduates went into finance and consulting.”

On the other hand – à propos jessi’s posting — I personally bemoan the extent to which we seem to want to be primarily a nation of machinists in once guise or another: machinists, engineers, systems analysts and the like. And given the global economy in which we live, it’s not realistic to believe that we could become a manufacturing power again. We can’t compete against China, for one thing.

But a bit more planning that helped young people choose educational and career paths that actually lead to actual jobs — and, yes, stimulus and other government funding to help them get there — would go a long way.

But wait! That’s “socialism,” isn’t it? And THAT’S a huge impediment, that any kind of central planning is seen as some kind of leftist-commie plot … but that’s another discussion.