06 November 2016
Correcting ouir Changing Economy
Correcting our Changing Economy
The NYT’s editorial on 5 November 2016 criticized Donald
Trump for ignoring the official statistics that substantiate the federal
administration’s and the Hillary Clinton Campaign’s claims that the nation’s
economy is doing as well or better than it has since before the Great Recession
in 2007-8. Sadly, in order to agree one
has equally to ignore that the recovery has come
simultaneously with the apparently more complete transformation of our domestic
economy into one in which physically creative human
activity, like manufacturing and mineral extraction, are less valued than the
sum of intellectual and interpersonal services.
Mr. Trump has tapped into the vocal stratus of American
society that has not managed successfully or self-gratifyingly to change their
livelihoods from physical production to conceptual or ministrative pursuits. The dissatisfaction of those U.S. citizens
who believe the traditional measures of economic progress do not apply to them
should be resolved by government jobs- and education-programs undertaken by whoever
wins the 2016 presidential election.
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