The important thing to remember is that one contry gives another country bits of paper that are only worth something the the country that issues them. Ultimately, or through proxy, Country B has to spend country A's bits of paper in Country A. If they don't, all the have is a pile of paper. Think about it.
You are so right! I realize that now. Here I was living in New Zealand eating my Kelloggs cereal, looking at my Gateway Computer, running Microsoft Windoze, listening to Nirvana, on my Boston Acoustics speakers, with a Ford in the driveway, etc, etc, etc. I'm going to have to throw all these things away because they're made in another country and go live in a cave with my milk powder, New Zealand's major export (unfortunately not let into America by American trade regualtions, set up to protect you, not subsidize Republican voting farmers, oh no)! That'll show them.
I was really with you there until the last sentance. Can you cite where your proposed "social engineering" has delivered the goods in the real world? My school of economics says no amount of social engineering will deliver a net benefit to society. Otherwise let's just make the US minimum wage $100 and hour.
As someone that used to live in California and now lives in NEw Zealand, let's just be realistic here for a minute: New Zealand is a developed first world country in the middle of the OECD. They ain't steeling jobs through low wages. Think Boulder, Colorado not Mumbai, India.
New Zealand just happened to have two things: the scenery and Peter Jackson. Was George Lucas going to make this in the Napa Valley? I don't think so.
Besides, whenever I go to the movies here in Auckland, New Zealand all the films are made in Hollywood, just as all the computer parts are made in Taiwan and the cars in Japan.
But discussing economics on Slashdot is a fools errand.
When they came for the browser, I was silent, because I didn't work for Netscape; When they came for the file compressor, I was silent, because I was not WinZip; When they came for the media player, I did not protest, because I was not WinAmp; When they came for the antivirus software, I did not protest, because I was not Symantec; When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf.
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The important thing to remember is that one contry gives another country bits of paper that are only worth something the the country that issues them. Ultimately, or through proxy, Country B has to spend country A's bits of paper in Country A. If they don't, all the have is a pile of paper. Think about it.
You are so right! I realize that now. Here I was living in New Zealand eating my Kelloggs cereal, looking at my Gateway Computer, running Microsoft Windoze, listening to Nirvana, on my Boston Acoustics speakers, with a Ford in the driveway, etc, etc, etc. I'm going to have to throw all these things away because they're made in another country and go live in a cave with my milk powder, New Zealand's major export (unfortunately not let into America by American trade regualtions, set up to protect you, not subsidize Republican voting farmers, oh no)! That'll show them.
I was really with you there until the last sentance. Can you cite where your proposed "social engineering" has delivered the goods in the real world? My school of economics says no amount of social engineering will deliver a net benefit to society. Otherwise let's just make the US minimum wage $100 and hour.
As someone that used to live in California and now lives in NEw Zealand, let's just be realistic here for a minute: New Zealand is a developed first world country in the middle of the OECD. They ain't steeling jobs through low wages. Think Boulder, Colorado not Mumbai, India. New Zealand just happened to have two things: the scenery and Peter Jackson. Was George Lucas going to make this in the Napa Valley? I don't think so. Besides, whenever I go to the movies here in Auckland, New Zealand all the films are made in Hollywood, just as all the computer parts are made in Taiwan and the cars in Japan. But discussing economics on Slashdot is a fools errand.
When they came for the browser, I was silent, because I didn't work for Netscape;
When they came for the file compressor, I was silent, because I was not WinZip;
When they came for the media player, I did not protest, because I was not WinAmp;
When they came for the antivirus software, I did not protest, because I was not Symantec;
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf.
All respect to brother Niemoeller