When This Blows Over

“I think things are so acrimonious now because what is not being seen
underneath all the Trump Obama / Obama Hillary blahblah…
underneath all of this -- way underneath it -- is human beings are
going through something that's only ever happened twice before in all
of human history. We are straddling a worldwide fundamental change
in how the world is built. You could make the case with so many wars
and empires and governments… kings and battles and so on… that the
only things that have really happened in history are the Invention of
Agriculture, the Industrial Revolution, and the Information Age. When
we talk about things like our cities being these murder pits - it's not an
easy problem to solve. The reason the cities are murder pits is because
the jobs are going. The jobs are going, because America is now fully in
the Information Age and industrial era jobs have gone to where they're
less expensive -- this is a fundamental problem.
This is the same problem that farmers had to face four hundred years
ago, where farmers were
saying “Well, we can't feed
ourselves.”
“Yeah, you got to go work in a
factory in the city”, and they
didn't want to do that. It
caused tremendous upheaval,
but that's what we're seeing. It
used to be that you could get
off a boat and walk through
Ellis Island, come out on the
other side and get a job in a factory. I mean no disrespect to factory
workers whatsoever, but essentially an assembly line job meant that
your job is to take this bolt and tighten this bolt in this location -- and
essentially anybody can do that – anybody. So industrial era jobs being
relatively repetitive gave people who are hardworking and then
oftentimes very smart -- people who were new here -- people who
needed a chance to get started… it gave them a chance to do some
work and get some decent jobs out of it.