Losing our way

I think our current problems started when:

• Houses went from being homes to investments.
• Companies went from making money by manufacturing things that they patented to making money enforcing the patents that they had bought.
• People started making buying decisions based soley upon price.
• Minimum wage was confused with living wage.
• People stopped learning about how the economy works.
• The price of a car is less then the cost to make it.
• Workers want high wages yet want to pay the lowest possible price for goods.
• We decided to move manufacturing offshore, decided to become a service-based economy, yet have no idea what good service actually means.

We can do so much better. We need another Sputnik.

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