Services

I look around me, and I realize that almost everyone I know is working in the services sector. Some are starting businesses on the side of their service-based jobs to start these businesses that provide, you guessed it, other services. But doesn't someone have to make something and put it into the stream of commerce? After all, once everyone become a restauranteur, a graphic designer, a photographer, a lawyer, a doctor, what is going to happen?

Of course this is something all those companies that are outsourcing all of our industries to China and India are not thinking about. What we're doing is taking our knowledge and giving it to these other countries to make everything we use. But what's happening is that we're discouraging those who used to be trained in these industries from training further or at all, and pretty soon, this knowledge is going to be all abroad. So what will stop the countries we're outsourcing the knowledge to from eventually keeping the knowledge all to themselves and cutting us off? Then what? We'll be stuck with all these artists and advisers, and no raw materials and empty factories that have stopped manufacturing a long time ago.

Someone should have told the greedy companies in business school that they should think twice before going for the solution that magically cuts the cost of production by two or three. But hey, we have a lot of lawyers that can go after the Chinese and Indians poisoning are products, because you know, they need to save a buck or two as well. Not to mention the amount of intellectual property that is being infringed on daily basis.

I think we're good to enjoy what is left of the lovely life we have here, because our children and their children won't, and when you say the American dream, they'll have no idea what you're talking about. If you're lucky, they'll be too dumb to care, which is likely, because you won't be able to afford their college education anyway. Not that they'll need one, since we'll have lawyers, doctors, artists, photographers, and consultants spilling out of our rhetorical ears and asses.

Oh well, shit!