75 years since the bizarre odyssey of Rudolf Hess

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Tristin Hopper | May 12, 2016 4:40 PM ET

... 75 years ago this month, Adolph Hitler’s Number Two dropped from the sky over Scotland.

“The first impression is undoubtedly of a schizoid psychopath,” wrote the British psychiatrist who was among the first to examine Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, who had just turned up in Scotland ...

Being in the Home Guard during the Second World War could be a surprisingly boring job, but that night, the men of East Renfrewshire could take credit for nabbing Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man ...

... sitting out the last four years of the Second World War allowed Hess to dodge the gallows at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, and come out instead with a life sentence ...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/the-nazi-who-fell-from-the-sky-75-years-since-the-bizarre-odyssey-of-rudolf-hess

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1. The Nazi's wanted to make Germany great again

From the link:

“I wanted to give Germany back its old pride and its old fame,” he told the American director of Spandau prison, according to the 2010 book Talking to Rudolph Hess.

I really want to know which specific time period in American History Trump is referring to!

-90% Jimmy

[Baobab]

2. If you mean what I think you are you are bringing up a good point

Trump is probably talking about the immediate postwar period, when Europe and Asia had been destroyed and before the meteoric economic growth in Asia. the period before the advent of personal computing and fast networks, when the US had less or no competition internationally for our products.

Now the bar has risen, we have much more competition, also workers are effectively competing with machines, who make billions of decisions a second, work for the cost of electricity, and never need to take a vacation.

That's a race we could never win. We should let industries automate fully and figure out a way to meet the challenge of everybody needing more education, not try to set up new guest worker systems that mimic slavery. that is not a solution. We should let the pace of automation take its natural pace, whatever it is, we shouldn't try to rush it or try to resist it either.

When businesses set up their back offices on the other side of the world to game the wage gradient to the diadvantage of US workers, perhaps we should tax that situation enough to discourage it (hard because the savings are so huge) We really do need for wages elsewhere to rise but that is going to be a losing battle in he face of automation without some new paradigm which nobody has thought up yet.

Because supply/demand. As jobs go away, and the number of people trying to get each job increases, wages naturally fall. The market care not about sustainability or living wages. It is perfectly happy to work people for less than their cost of living -to death.

In that context, the corporation has the potential to and likely will become more and more like nazi-ism in its race to the bottom, becoming an intolerably unequal amoral situation.