I think labor can be traded easily compared to materials and technology (a form of tangible creative materials). Proof in the labor category is in the completely underestimated amount of un- and under-employed. People can be trained to be productive in employment that is conducive to their essence. On the other hand, materials either have to be taken or given by "Angelic" philanthropists. They really do exist. I believe that the Warren Buffetts and Bill Gates's of the world will work with us with help. I know I need help (professional).
Most Americans were taken in by Ronald Reagan's trickle-down theories on employer/employee relations. Right-wingers remain convinced they are of no value as employees. They are most likely correct, that THEY are of no value as workers, considering they havent the ability to think and lack any measure of creativity or inventiveness. Still, the conservatives and neoconservatives believe in the benevolence of the job creators, that they will be treated fairly as they are trickled on. The right-wingers are fighting to be trickled on to a greater extent with their efforts to get government of the backs of their bosses by eliminating worker protection laws and other regulations. Though no proof of this employer benevolence exists, and workers' incomes have stagnated since Reagan sold them his snake oil, the conservatives and neoconservatives are content to wait for the prosperity promised by their King Ron. This waiting takes place in the shadow of the job creators increasing their own wealth four fold during this same period. Fortunately, the rest of us realize we are of great value as workers, and that employers truly need us, since management CANNOT do it all. Growth became a dirty word and the down sizing and outsourcing that brought corporate profits in the 1980s and 1990s, fizzled in the first decade of the twenty-first century as wages and credit of lower and middle income Americans could no longer keep pace with the loss of jobs and the required consumerism. But the right-wingers still want to believe down sizing, outsourcing, and higher salaries and bonuses for upper management will bring back the American Dream to all. A few U.S. businesses saw the flaws in the short term profits plans used by so-called business experts with MBA degrees. These few businessmen understood that cost cutting to increase profits was a finite method. In the end, there is nothing left to eliminate, and re-growing the companies becomes financially impossible. Many old and well established U.S. companies fell victim to this fatal business model, and more are expected to close their doors. It seems that an important aspect of down sizing and outsourcing escaped the greedy thought processes of those experts with the MBAs, and the self-proclaimed business experts of the right wing. They failed to consider that, though short-term profits rose, the hundreds-of-billions of dollars paid in slave wages to Asian workers by the U.S. corporations are not spent here in the U.S.
