The Pankian Metaphor 3059

so one might conjecture that you trade-off gov. advanced, pro-active economic planning that attempts to start 20 years earlier ... attempting to make the transition over a much longer & graceful period of time ... as opposed to relying on market forces which frequently may operate as discontinuites.

the issue with disruptive change is that business-commercial parties may have significant vested interest in maintaining the status quo as long as possible ... or at least possibly until they have retired.

invidual gov. officials may have less vested interest in maintaining the status quo long after things should have adapted and changed; however what they decide may be incorrect based on insufficient or inaccurate data and-or lack of experience.

so sometimes there is trade-off between having vested interests with the skill and experience to make better decisions about change (but refuse to do it) and people w-o a lot of vested interest in the status quo and aren't adverse to change ... but don't necessarily have the skill and experience to make quality decisions about change.

part of the writeup by the census department wasn't about socio-economic grouping ... the correlation turned out to be with level of training and education ... as improving the ability to change and adapt. the socio-economic grouping may turn out to be a result of the difficulting in changing and adapting (and correlated with level of training and eduction) as opposed to the cause of any difficulting in being able to change and adapt (you may be in a socio-economic group because of inability to change and adapt ... as opposed to being unable to change and adapt because you are in any specific socio-economic group). The census report also had something about half of the highschool graduate aged people were functionally illiterate (very low level of education and skills) ... and the trend was that the percentage was increasing (in part because the complexity of society was increasing and therefor the level of skills and education, needed to be functionally literate, was increasing).

given the premise in the reference calling for unearned profit tax

the referenced census department report (from the early 90s) about half of jobs in manufactoring are subsidized ...

might have included automobile manufactoring workers ... since according to the unearned profit tax article ... the gov. was limiting compebreastive imports as a means of increasing-subsidizing the automobile industry profits ... which the industry was to turn around and use to remake itself. The point of the unearned profit tax article was that the industry wasn't using the increased industry profits to remake itself into more agile and compebreastive operation. It wasn't until almost 15 years later that there was even the C4 effort billed as remaking the industry to be more compebreastive

and that was approx. 15 years ago.

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