Rodent Regatta

Dane points to Philip Greenspun’s entry titled, The Chinese Car. It seems to me that Greenspun is right on the money with his forecast – if not for cars, for some other vital area of manufacturing. The question remains about just how far ”knowledge work” can take us. There is a reason that an automobile might be made so cheaply in China. People will work for less. Will we be willing to work for less here, in order to keep certain capabilities ”at home?”

A day approaches when we will have to return to the era in which meaningful sets of skills are readily exchanged in the markets for money, goods or services that we need in return. To that end Halley has posted the whole of Emerson’s Self Reliance.