Trickle-down job theory (because prevention of outsourcing is bad)

Discussion in 'Business & Economics' started by FreeMason, Jan 1, 2005.

  1. FreeMason Registered Senior Member

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    Now, I'm not sure if someone had thought of this before myself, but I am the only one I know of who thinks of this...since I'm not a policy maker it is still just overly-simplistic, but it's a start.

    Anyway, we can not stop outsourcing, that would damage the economies of the nations that need the jobs, if we damage their economies, we lose trade, we lose trade, we lose our economy, depression starts. This is roughly the events that occured in 1929, (protectionist economy).

    Anyway, so what is the Trickle-down job theory?

    Create new jobs, through-out the market, by making high tech jobs that no other nation can do.

    What would that be?

    NASA.

    When NASA began in 1958 (well, congealed that is), it had a few thousand employees and small facilities.

    By 1964 it had 400,000 employees, was pumping money into hundreds of small businesses and dozens of mega-corporations, and it produced hundreds of technological spin-offs whose values to the economy of the world can not be measured.

    So let's do it again.

    A massive Space Program, which puts money to good use rather than to crappy bureaucracy. That would mean re-evaluating our Welfare programs (making it more efficient//stream-lined) that would mean a small cut in Military (shouldn't be necessary), and a discontinuence of a few needless bureaucracies.

    Anyway, the result would be a spur to the high-tech industry.

    We could emply a million in NASA and through NASA out-sourcing to private companies in order to get Man permanently on the Moon and Mars.

    That million jobs, has to be filled by someone. Last time I checked, there were not a million unemployed scientists and engineers. This means that there are over-qualified peoples in lesser jobs, it also means people who'd like to fill those spots can not.

    So, with the creation of those jobs, college grads and those already in their careers can "move-up" to a new career for this great endeavour.

    That means now there is a gap in other jobs that were currently filled by them.

    Over-qualified workers from less technical jobs could get job training or already be qualified enough to "move-up".

    And now there's a gap there, so lesser trained workers move-up, and so on and so forth. Until burger king employees who are college students in Computer Science can find employment as an intern or such for a computer industry that lost its employees to better jobs that had been opened...and so people can now find burger king jobs (those who have no technical expertise).

    This is the general concept of trickle-down job theory.

    I think it'd pay off in the long run, due to the emmense amount of resources to be gathered from both Moon and Mars. But first would be a lot of time studying it, so most of the kick-back in the form of money would be from the better synthetic materials created, better technologies created all to get man to those locations.

    Which could be patented, and copywrited and etc. to be shipped and used around the world, bringing money back into the American economy which is currently going up into Space.

    It'd certainly earn the US another foot in eternity, civilizations thousands of years from now will owe their existence to us as we owe ours to the Greeks. (matter of civilization).
     
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  3. Carnuth i dont Registered Senior Member

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    there are not an "emmense" amount of resources on mars or the moon. for resources, look down down down, and maybe to your left. anyways, that basic premise is the military-industrial complex, but not for reasons stated.
     
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  5. Roman Banned Banned

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    NASA is a federal program. It's a fucking kleptocracy.

    Your idea is basically a massive government subsidy for physicist and factory workers. There's actually no cash being generated, and no product. Just tax dollars being spent.
     
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