Willie Nelson (country singer http://www.willienelson.com ) said in a documentary during a Farm Aid benefit. I'm paraphrasing but the spirit of what he said is in it. "For every 5 farms that fail around a small town, 1 business closes." I'm sure everyone would take a smaller income so they could keep their jobs. Not one executive thought of that, why, because the executives have invested in the companies where the jobs are going. So it's a financial advantage for them, they care about their investments more then they do the American people. Sam. David Alitz wrote: > So, you think all of those healthcare workers and lawyers will be in > the streets and all of the good apartments will just sit empty? The > price of goods and our standard of living :( will have to adjust to > something more in line with the rest of the world. Hopefully it will > take a while to drop that far. > > This has become a bit of an obsession for me and I could spend hours > in explanation, but this is getting pretty far OT. Take a look at > www.myfootprint.org . Read "Your Money or Your Life: Transforming > Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence" by > Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin and "Stepping Lightly" by Mark A. > Burch. I've read dozens of books on the subject, these two sum it up > well. myfootprint.org and Stepping Lightly will give you some great > perspective and Your Money or Your Life help plan what to do about > it. Your Money or Your Life should be required reading for everyone. > > Back on-topic... It's just this re-balancing that I believe will > drive people to open-source. The small business I'm working for > couldn't possibly afford the services I've set up if I used M$ > software. I'm afraid Apple still wants too much for their hardware. > That leaves Linux and i386 class machines. :) > > Dave Alitz > >> Healthcare? Lawyers? Who can afford a doctor or lawyer when they >> don't have a job? Those jobs go away too. Service jobs go away with >> the money. If people can't afford the service, they do without. >> >> The jobs that are left usually don't pay a living wage. >> I mean, a cheap apartment in the bad part of town could be had for what? >> $400/mo? _assuming_ that your job is within walking distance (most >> aren't, that is why rent is so cheap there) $0 for car/bus, you still >> have to pay $100/mo for food, $35 for phone (a real requirement these >> days), $25/mo for electricity/heat, $30/mo for clothes (laundry still >> has to be done), >> $20/mo(average) for health care. Sitting at $610/mo. These are >> lowball numbers in general, and I know that you can cut your rent by >> having >> a live-in-thief, um I mean roommate. But even at that, you would be >> just scraping by at minimum wage. Assuming nothing bad happens. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list