Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Greatest Reindustrialization Process in US History || Peter Zeihan" video.

@TisDana On the job training is more important. The fact that we've lost so much of that for the last 30 years is more dangerous than Peter realizes, and the inaccurate, self-serving "school is more important than anything" attitude of our elites clouds their judgement.
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And the workforce that supported them. I suspect the loss of our factories and the on-the-job training that those represented, lands us in at least as much trouble as Russia with the collapse of its educational system.
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@a-iz4pg If people moving out but businesses staying there is the problem, then why not tax the businesses instead of the workers? Seems like that would be the way to run a city, if you knew what you were doing.
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@Esoterrible Sounds like the only thing to do is control spending, then. Can't tax the people, can't tax the businesses. You're not going to force people to live in overcrowded cities, if they have a choice. Maybe in the end, cities are a mistake.
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Well, yeah, obviously. If you read some of the documents coming out of Washington (DoD strategy papers, etc) you'll see that our elites just assume we're working under something called "World Systems Theory". It's of, by, and for the "urban creative class" and everyone else in the country can have their jobs offshored. Zeihan's assumptions about "favorable labor cost profiles" show that he's on board with all that.
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What happened to the "favorable labor cost profiles" of Mexico and Columbia? Our current crop of elites has nothing but contempt for workers. The only way we're actually seeing the future you're envisioning, is if we get Trump into the White House to sweep the elites out of our bureaucracy.
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