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In the Year 2020
An anonymous reader writes "Every 5 years, the CIA funds a detailed forecast of the future 15 years hence. The biggest trend identified in the latest report is the economic and technological rise of Asia."
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"The biggest trend identified in the latest report is the economic and technological rise of Asia."
China WILL bite us on the ass. It's only a matter of time. We are enriching our enemy.
We do business with them so the capitalists can stuff more money in their already fat pockets as they undermine the very economy that is making them fat and rich. What will they do then?
They are rotating the wealth around.
China will become what we WERE and ameriKans will be doing slave labor to build cheap crap for the rich Chinese..
Although the document is getting slashdotted and its kinda void of info the "Status of Women" URL talks about women equality and whatnot.
I know I'm going to piss of many a geek girl and probably a majority of guys, but here we go...
Background. I'm a single male never married, but in a few long term relationships, one of almost 9 years, and didn't have the best of relationship with my mother, but I like her OK, better than my father.
It talks about equality of income and whatnot. Yeah, it says in the constitution that "all men are created equal" which is taken to mean women too, but I believe that is BS. A salary is completely supply and demand, and _everyone_ gets paid what they are valued in that society. I'm not equating money/salary with goodness or anything like that, purely money. There are people that get paid an exorbitant amount of money to kick a ball, or to throw it into a hoop, or similar tricks. No matter how much I try, I will never be anywhere successful in such an activity, nor do I make any ballpark of what they do, nor will I.
Women get paid less than men for a reason. A man will not ever, ever get pregnant and take off a good chunk of time for work. One example. The emotional aspect of women vs men is another factor. And so on. When it comes to leadership qualities and things that get the job done, I believe, and I believe it has been demonstrated that women are clearly inferior to men in this regard, and this is why they are paid less, and why they will _always_ get paid less.
There are always going to be exceptions, but I strongly believe this to be true as well as empirically to be demonstrated.
I am not saying that I am that great of a male. I'm not. But I will say that men and women are not equal, and that many of women qualities are excellent, but will not typically be rewarded with pay (except for the already known exceptions).