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Originally Posted by Skerlnik
Exactly. Many people see this fundamental shift as an inevitability.
So, let's say, then, within 50 years the US no longer produces anything. Outsourced and importing everything we consume. Is this necessarily a bad thing? Should we strive for some sort of material self-sufficiency?
Under this theory, all the wealth creation is done at the secondary (manufacturing) stage, NOT the service-based one. Therefore, we would have shifted all wealth creation to, say, China.
I think we may be setting ourselves up for very bad things, in terms of trade power and debts, if what this theory implies is true.
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Becoming entirely dependent on other countries (which is what will happen when we become a solely service- and consumer-based society) is bad for us because not only do we lose any real freedom we may still have left, we become a drag on the world economy.
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