Analysis of Ja in the global economy:

[Jawge]

Someone lent me a documentary (commanding heights: The battle for the world economy) I was amazed at the things that were said (were the same stuff I was saying on this site)on the documentary. One of the main arguments which was given a whole segment; was that in order for nations to move from poor to rich the populace hast to be empowered with education and access to capital within the system.

Yes ben your Idol Lee Kuan Yew is there, Bill clinton, Vincente Fox.

I can't believe I was so much on point. I'm saying if a simple man as myself can see this. Why can't the present govt. and corporate backers (with their sophisticated techniques in analysis) see these things.

I used the substitution technique on Bill Joy's essay (why the future doesn't need us() to show our looming dilema but I was mocked and viewed with contempt. Massive it won't
be pretty if China and India thrives in prosperity. They will demand and can afford more food. The price of food will naturally rise. In the documentary Bill Clinton is advocating trade to enrich economies (obviously a strategic move) Where will that leave us? What will we have to offer in this advance market? Gambling and prostitution?

Wi corner dark.

[Jawge]

Okay, I took something from the transcript:

MR. FRIEDMAN: Well, well, let’s just look at those figures a little
bit. Yes, India has a billion, fifty million people so divided over
that the per capita income is, as you say, about a little under a
thousand dollars a person. But at the center, if you actually broke
down the statistics, there are three hundred million Indians in the
middle class...

MR. WATTENBERG: Right.

MR. FRIEDMAN: ...or what they defined as middle class, who have a
much higher standard of living than that and going much higher every
day. And numbers here really matter. Let’s assume the same number of
Indians are geniuses as Americans. Same percentage. That five out of
every one hundred Indians is a genius and five out of every one hundred
Americans is a genius, okay. Well, sheer numbers matter. That means
as the world flattens out, they’re going to have a lot more geniuses to
be able to plug and play than we will.

MR. WATTENBERG: But tell me what you mean again by – or you say the
world is flat.

MR. FRIEDMAN: Right.

MR. WATTENBERG: Why isn’t it round? And I know you come back at the
very end of the book and say it really is round.

MR. FRIEDMAN: Right. Here’s what I mean. What I mean is that
let’s say you were one of those Indian geniuses. Well let’s – let me
go back to an example that Bill Gates gives in the book. Thirty years
ago if you had a choice of being born a B student in Bethesda,
Maryland, where I live, or a genius in Beijing, what would you have
chosen thirty years ago? No question. You would want to be a B
student in Bethesda. Your life chances as a B student in Bethesda were
so much greater than a genius in Bangalore or Beijing because you were
trapped in crazy socialist systems and in China in a cultural
revolution. When the world is flat, Ben, you do not want to be a B
student in Bethesda because every genius in Beijing and Bangalore can
now, with this new flat platform, bring their skills to the world
market. Or better yet, have the world market come to them. You can
now innovate without having to emigrate. That’s a big deal.

MR. WATTENBERG: Yes, but you still have a great deal of emigration.
And I know some people are going back because of all the things you
say, and you’ve written about it very eloquently. You have this open,
truly democratic country which China does not have.

MR. FRIEDMAN: In the case of India you have this truly
democratic...

MR. WATTENBERG: India you have - with a lot of the problems that
democracy brings – but I don’t think – my own view, if I had to bet
between poorer India and richer China, I’d bet on the democracy, on
India long term. I mean, I don’t know that it’s going to happen but
that – has any country that has not been democratic over an extended
period of time really made it?

The above in red is key to JA. As I said the info age will give us a chance but if we don't take that chance; it will be unmerciful. How many of us back in the 70s heard of some guy or girl that was brilliant and just sat there wasted? It won't happen in the info age if we position ourselves properly.

Then again I'm only beating my gum because most on here is dead set on
gambling and prostitution.

The above is one of the clear weaknesses of the JLP; they don't understand the new global economy. Market forces will doom them and their coporate backers in time. The plantation master approach will not work! It's a thing of the past.

[Islandman]

Jawge, its not only the price of food that will rise if India and China continue on thier road to first world status. The price of bauxite for example will rise, as will the price of a hotel room in the Caribbean. These will all cause more investment in ventures that can supply these things.

My point is that there is much more to gain than to lose from more properous nations in the world. We just have to get ourselves ready for it. I will agree with you that currently we are not ready though.

[Islandman]

Jawge, have you read Friedmans book, "The World is Flat?"

I think you should, he goes into great detail on the issues I know you are interested in.

[Jawge]

It was given to me by a
friend, started it but didn't finish. I was impressed with the techniques described that UPS used. Will pick it back up (person gave me freakanomics too, because I gave him confessions of an economic hit man and technology in the early civilization)

Right now mi have sci-fi whey mi can't put down, plus work related material. I will try to squeeze it in though. tried reading on the train but it's just not happening

Bill Joy is right.

[Jawge]

Boss yuh know how mi
feel bout the hotel rooms. Wi need ah civil rights bill for JA to reap the true benefits from the tourist industry. Bauxite is a very sticky subject.
I think we should close our mines (yeah I know many will balk at me for this) but in the interest of Ja's security and stability, I would say leave bauxite alone.

[Muadib]

Nah man.. wi have JAMAL and when last dem burn a book ?

Wi safe !

[Muadib]

Jawge stop talking about what you know very little.

If you would like to learn about the JLP.. just ask.

JTI people were shocked... quote: "Wow, they actually get it !"

Sooo.. keep bleating in ignorance or seek knowledge.. your choice.