"Captial always seeks cheaper labor, and will search the globe - around and around again - to find it. I wonder, can such a system of global impoverishment last for many more decades (never mind centuries) alongside climate change, nuclear proliferation and other planet-wide problems?"
Exactly. I remember how, in the recession of the early eighties, TV commentators chortled over the fact that anyone with computer skills had been spared layoffs...and I also recall the contempt with which most programmers normally treat the issue of unionizing hi tech workers...
But, as it turns out, neither education nor skills offer any kind of protection. That gray area of privilege is now up for grabs in the global marketplace. Which leaves the brain workers with tougher choices:
"There's room at the top, they are telling you still... But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be live like the folks on the hill. A working class hero is something to be!"
Joanna