Apple Goes On A Hiring Spree In China

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18. Maybe. I think it's a different world than I grew up in, and I don't think a lot of

people have come to that realization. I could be wrong, but I haven't seen a substantial piece of evidence that indicates even the faintest possibility.

And I don't think we really know what getting kicked in the teeth is, yet.

It's possible that millions, perhaps tens of millions of people could become politically astute enough to realize how they are being taken advantage of, and the workplace which has disappeared tens of millions of jobs along with the infrastructure in which they were performed could be rebuilt and everyone retrained, (that alone would be perhaps $20 or 40 trillion at least), and all the people who hold the power and wealth today might decide that there are other things more important than the single pursuit of which has consumed their entire lives (unless they were just given it all).

But I doubt it. Even if all the workers woke up tomorrow and stood together, there would be 20-30 years worth of rebuilding to do to even get near a starting point. A lot of people sacrificed much of their lives, working for very little to get us to the better place we were in by the 60's or so, but since that time we have just been burning up and selling off the largesse. I don't see the current crop of Americans being willing to make those sacrifices.

Along with all that we will have to change the things we are doing that contribute to global warming and cease our endless need to kill other people and their children in war, else none of the stuff above will happen.

Other than that, it's just a bunch of feel good stuff about some mythical future that isn't even possible, so how likely could that be?

The best chance is after the baby boomers mostly die out over the next 20-30 years, and with less people there might be some change. But that would take a powerful force which isn't apparent right now, or a trigger like severe climate change or a bloody revolution or attack from a stronger nation, any of which could just as easily push us into real fascism, some kind of fundie religious state, etc,, or simply destroy us.

But I'm probably too optimistic.