I am sure the native Americans are particulary greatful to Europeans who exposed them to so many diseases that killed up to 90% of them.
You are in a way fortunate Rich. If I remember correctly, you claimed to be a grandfather, so you likely won't live long enough to see the world change against your viewpoint.
I was referring to the view that White People were the driving force behind most innovation. That has beeb true for some time, but is likely to change within the next decades. Especially China does everything to become a scientific powerhouse and leader in key technologies like artificial intelligence.
China so far has based their impressive growth on Western technologies and on manufacturing Western products.
The whole Chinese society is based on Confucianism which favors collectivism and doesn't value individualism. And the individualism is a driving force behind innovation.
You forgot commercial theft, military espionage, and their protectionist practices, which, of course, would be called "trade wars" if practiced by the US.
China so far has based their impressive growth on Western technologies and on manufacturing Western products.
Yes, so far. But they have almost caught up to us. They now have modern education system, a large population to produce scientists and a government that is willing to spend the necessary ressources to see it done. It might still take a while, but those factors will eventually have an impact.
And the individualism is a driving force behind innovation.
You are right. That is the one advantage which I hope will grant Western societies an edge over China, that being said, how much it will matter is not really predictable. Japan also places a lot of value on collectivism, and they have become a very innovative society. In any case, the days when the West (and Japan) dominated the scientific world are numbered.
That is the one advantage which I hope will grant Western societies an edge over China
...which the US forfeited at the altar of individual greed as exemplified by the political wh***s turn "consultants" aiding and abetting our trading enemies. In China, that would be treason. As far as I know and hope, they execute traitors.
@Rich, what you and people who think (or don't think) like you have forgotten is that it is WE whites who establish the standard for other whites to follow.
Were we black, Aboriginal or Innuits, our standard might well be very different, not "better", not "worse", but different......very different.
Your suggested subjectivity can explain only so much and go only so far. There are objective measures. We already discussed that so I will show a remarkable retrain and will not repeat it.
The most popular job for mbas. About a quarter to a third of mba grads, depending on school, go into consulting. Easy jobs and pays pretty damn good.
But thats basically what consultants do. They share what theyve learned at other corps, combine it with the knowledge theyve learned in grad school, then companys hire them usually on a contract or they hire a firm like Deloitte who then sends out the appropriate consultants.
Its the same job essentially. Only difference is the industry they go into and how they got there. Some bc of their previous role and the network they developed some bc of corporate experience and an mba just depends. Many politicians go into lobbying or consulting which share many similarities. Lobbyists get paid a fairly small salary but if they get some deal pushed through theyll get a 6 or even 7 figure check as a bonus. But yes some do consult/lobby for foreign governments, corps, industry groups/think tanks, etc.
A lot of higher level campaign workers and some politicisns go into political consulting too..
Easy job? LOL! Work for one of the top 10 consulting firms and tell me if you got away with under 10 to 12 hours a day and living in a hotel for most of the week. Consulting is one of the hardest and most stressful jobs out there, which is the reason why only younger folk (25 to 40) are able to survive in that field.
Im well aware of what a consultant does, i worked as one on a contract from 2016 to early 2018 bc of my b2b tech sales experience (mostly iot, gps, software). There was a mandate affecting the entire trucking industry and i worked for a company that sells devices and accompanying software for trucks.
And yes 10 hour days are the norm. A few months before and after the eld mandate launched i was doing 12 14 hour days. Nonstop travel and sitting with the vps till midnight even sometimes going through paperwork. It was great while it lasted but it was something i knew would be short term. Once the mandate passed and the companies are compliant things slowed to a crawl.
Now im focusing on construction as the industry has picked up like crazy since trump got settled in. People are fixing their homes like never before. Im working now to get our company certified with tesla so that whenever buys a tesla in my area well get first dibs on installing the chargers in their garage, - running 3 aug wire, new box, putting in 220 volt outlets, etc. Pays well bc so few people know how to do it properly.
I have no problem with consultants. I have a problem with the who*es - the ex-politicians turn "consultants" peddling influence to the benefit of our enemies like China and to the detriment of the US or the American companies.
Thankfully they havent crossed into poland. There's lobbyists but nothing like the us. Most lobbyists dont really care about the cause country industry etc. They just want a paycheck like everyone else.
The rules of political correctness can be so insonsistent in Poland. They stopped calling Roma people gypsies but look at this: Black radish called Murzynka - Black Female. (my fav veg to sow in the field).
Another example: Murzynek cake - Black Boy.
Are they controvercial today? The names of these articles are traditional Polish words for black people. Should they be changed? What to?
Here in the States, "Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix" along with "Uncle Ben's Converted Rice" boxes STILL as we speak, both have faces of blacks as iconic emblems with which to sell their products!
We've all but banned lawn jockeys, should we then ban the above food packaging as well? :-)
Sometimes too much older Americans will ask a salesman to "chew the price down a bit", meaning of course, to make the item less costly. The reference seems innocent enough, although even younger people with elderly relatives in the rural US will probably identify this expression as a euphemism for "to JEW the price down", a clearly anti-Semitic reference to the fallacy that all Jewish people are looking to get something for either dirt cheap or even free.
"Murzynek" I've also seen used in a dictionary meaning things other than the above reference. Up until the 19th century in Poland, a Polish gentleman whom I know and who lives not far from us in New Jersey, once remarked that "Zydowka" didn't only mean a Jewish woman (earlier English "a Jewess"), but in slang of that period, was even used to refer in a derogatory fashion to a prostitute!
Naturally, the latter reference is entirely lost on your generation, save for meeting somebody who's over two-hundred or so years old!! LOL
@Lyzko Do you mind giving us a source for your claim that the word żydowka meant prostitute? Like a definition from a dictionary or something, not something you 'heard' from a 'friend'. I'very tried to look for any source claiming so and failed but I'm sure you know one.
We all know about shiksa but zydowka meaning prostitute? Oh, those bloody antisemitic Poles.
Common parlance heard in rural communities, kaprys, is scarcely admissible evidence now, is it? Were I to ask you for your opinion regarding somebody and you were to run through a litany of nasty complaints or invectives against that person, I'm not very likely going to ask you for "sources", but would in all probability take your word for it, save for overwhelming evidence to the contrary:-)
