I work at a place called "Blind Willie's" which is a blues bar with live music every night. Last night was pretty slow and I was reading my Marx-Engels Reader for my "Marx, Nietzsche, Freud" class. After having left it for a moment I came back to notice that one of the band members (guitarist I believe) was reading the first few pages since they had taken a break from playing. He was a husky guy that looked like Jesse Ventura. After some small talk, he said he had a degree in Mechanical Engineering "a long ways from philosophy," after making the obligatory concession that his degree was more practical and asking him if he was doing anything with the degree he told me he was but not any more because there are no more jobs. Then he said:
"What people don't realize, is that it is the guys on the assembly lines, the one's actually making the goods that do 90 percent of the R&D. Now that the U.S. has cut them out we've of course lost our technical advantage."
An illuminating perspective even if the numbers may not be right.
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