There is a massive economic surge making noise just on the other side of the horizon; best understood within the following dichotomy:
♦ Manufacturing automation reduces the need for human capital.
♦ The outsourcing of U.S. manufacturing is due to lower labor costs overseas.
The inability to square that modern ideological and economic circle lies at the heart of a new economic paradigm, a second American economic revolution.

When W Edwards Demming exported his post world war II industrial manufacturing management skill to Japan, the key export was not technological – it was psychological.
There is something very unique to the American labor market that does not exist within global competitors; the ability to innovate, to think outside the box.
Within the culture of Americanism lies a very specific DNA strain that is non-conformational, or anti-status-quo. It’s an immeasurable and unquantifiable factor in the success of American economic exceptionalism. No other nation has found a way to duplicate it; the closest anti-establishment cultural sensibility is Australia.
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