The Great Divergence

[Jester]

Think of quintessential American products. Levis and Reeboks? Where are they made now? Essentially, for any nation, your power is based in your people.

I'm always amazed by the way you put contradictory ideas in adjacent sentences.

Is it really your idea that the American people will be great and educated if they spend their lives making Levis and Reeboks? Those are the most boring, worst paid, lowest education manufacturing jobs in the world.

The "quintessential" American products you want to keep in the country are making things like Google and Intel, Boeing and Pfizer. Research and development. High value added. Those things pay good money. Making Reeboks is generally only attractive to people making less than even the poorest decile of American workers.

-Jester