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October 17th 2008 19:23
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Fall of Rome Tips and Hints
The Fall of Rome with Hints and Tips for the U.S.A
This follows our last article about the parallel comparisons between the United States and the fall of the Roman Empire. There are distinctions but a common thread runs through the comparisons.
There are four elements present in the U.S. society which compare to the fall of Rome.
1. Uncontrolled expansion.
2. Making money on money economy.
3. Work and Labor Imbalances
4. Dislocation of workers and Displacement of Romans by those they conquered.
When a nation's existence depends on expansion in unnatural ways, they put their existence at risk.
The same applys to business. For many years, the business community conducted business primarily to impress Wall Street and to grow stock value rather than the real reason for being in business of making or growing something and adding a reasonable markup for the owners and the workers to enjoy enough money for their needs and have some left over for those who are not successful. For many years, U.S. businesses did everything possilble to grow larger and expand markets. Many spent years, selling under costs to capture market share only to find out in the end, they had to finally make their margins on the products they made or grown and not on the manipulation of money. Money is one of the first things that runs out as we are noting in the current 2008 money crisis. Instead of returning to reality, the government is feeding a bad system that will never really work. The U.S. uses money as a product. Money is only a method of transaction based on the values of tangible products coming from the values of work and labor. Work and labor are the essetial assets of a society.
As a nation, the U.S. has sought further market investments using the financial market as a driving force rather than focusing on the products being made or grown. The U.S. gave in to Globalization and Free Trade hoping the investment side of things would establish a new economy based on service. A service economy lacks substance. It lacks the tangible asset value of workers and labor
Cheaper wages means less growth and not more. Rome played the slavery game too long. Nations fail when they can no longer innovate new ways of producing things. Rome was hooked on cheap manual labor and it played out. They did not recognize workers and labor at the basic asset of their society. It left a larger poverty stricken class that grew in numbers which became too large for the elite classes to control. The U.S. has done something worst. They have shipped their production and factories to other countries for the sake of cheaper and cheaper labor. Back home, is a new vast working poor class which is now integrating with an impoverished class of immigrant workers. The politicians talk about the need for maintaining the middle class but seldom talk about the working poor and the underclass as being an essential factor to balance out the numbers for the sake of the whole society and their own wealth. These underclasses are under severe stress. The U.S. as Rome did, fails to measure the present these present conditions for the future.
The assimiliation of different races and nationalities is referred as being the "melting pot". It sounds good but it plays out in many negative ways too. In Rome, it became a problem based on internal populations displacing Romans. The U.S. elite ruling class has intiated both and internal and external problem of workers and labor.
In Rome, the elite tried to drive their economy much like we are doing in the U.S. by making money on money instead of making things. They sought out the cheapest labor possible. This process burns itself out. The ulimate asset of any nation or culture is the value of their labor and work - money follows this value and it does not work the other way. Money is only a method of transaction and not a real product. It is an intangible result of work and labor.
In Rome, slaves displaced the citizens of a race that made Rome what it was. This is not racism as it would be labeled today but a simple fact of displacement by the numbers. No matter how clever and efficient, the new populations were as individuals, they were Romans neither in temper or tradition. They were apt to carry a slave's ideals of conduct into the performance of their new role as citizens. The fall of Rome was set in place by ill-considered expansion as we have with globalization and free trade today, the existence of slavery on a vast scale as we have the working poor, the under class and the immigrant workers today. In the end there was a displacement of Romans by "new" Romans. However, any displacement of the controlling classes in the U.S. will most likely be external more than internal since the U.S. moved their production and factories outside the U.S.
The white European traditions are weakening but the minority blacks have assimilated into these traditions. The latinos were here before the Judeo Christian European traditions were set up in the U.S. Constitution but they are merging with the U.S. heritage too - most likely on a give and take basis. The underclass and working poor are growing in mass numbers in the U.S. Because of their numbers, displacement of the elite classes will come but not in the same way as in Rome . The displacement will come more from outside the U.S. and may connect in the U.S. in some new form of solidarity as an outcry against Globalization and Free Trade. The U.S. should be preparing for the post-Globalization era or even more frightening a new form of Globalization that absorbs the U.S.A as an ant. Relatively speaking, the U.S. is a small country. It would still be small even if it merges with Mexico and Canada compared to Asia.
With this we can perhaps predict the what will happened to the U.S. What made the U.S. great is fading away. The elite classes have made the same mistakes as those in Rome with the exception of Rome's fall being more internal.
Making money on money instead of making things; competing with human beings as a commodity instead of the core asset and the displacement of a culture and tradition that established the strength of the original foundation predicts what happens in the future. After the money games are over, the culture comes to take over for better or for worse. Rome was never the same after they went through the process. In the U.S., the white European heritage is fading away. Liberalism has played its part in its undoing. See The Rationale Quest . Something new is on the way. Hopefully, it may be something better than it is now. It could be better if we stopped ignoring the centuries of philosophy and the religious heritage that made us who we are.
Ultimately, it is all about defining the Common Good and putting it into practice.
This follows our last article about the parallel comparisons between the United States and the fall of the Roman Empire. There are distinctions but a common thread runs through the comparisons.
There are four elements present in the U.S. society which compare to the fall of Rome.
1. Uncontrolled expansion.
2. Making money on money economy.
3. Work and Labor Imbalances
4. Dislocation of workers and Displacement of Romans by those they conquered.
When a nation's existence depends on expansion in unnatural ways, they put their existence at risk.
The same applys to business. For many years, the business community conducted business primarily to impress Wall Street and to grow stock value rather than the real reason for being in business of making or growing something and adding a reasonable markup for the owners and the workers to enjoy enough money for their needs and have some left over for those who are not successful. For many years, U.S. businesses did everything possilble to grow larger and expand markets. Many spent years, selling under costs to capture market share only to find out in the end, they had to finally make their margins on the products they made or grown and not on the manipulation of money. Money is one of the first things that runs out as we are noting in the current 2008 money crisis. Instead of returning to reality, the government is feeding a bad system that will never really work. The U.S. uses money as a product. Money is only a method of transaction based on the values of tangible products coming from the values of work and labor. Work and labor are the essetial assets of a society.
As a nation, the U.S. has sought further market investments using the financial market as a driving force rather than focusing on the products being made or grown. The U.S. gave in to Globalization and Free Trade hoping the investment side of things would establish a new economy based on service. A service economy lacks substance. It lacks the tangible asset value of workers and labor
Cheaper wages means less growth and not more. Rome played the slavery game too long. Nations fail when they can no longer innovate new ways of producing things. Rome was hooked on cheap manual labor and it played out. They did not recognize workers and labor at the basic asset of their society. It left a larger poverty stricken class that grew in numbers which became too large for the elite classes to control. The U.S. has done something worst. They have shipped their production and factories to other countries for the sake of cheaper and cheaper labor. Back home, is a new vast working poor class which is now integrating with an impoverished class of immigrant workers. The politicians talk about the need for maintaining the middle class but seldom talk about the working poor and the underclass as being an essential factor to balance out the numbers for the sake of the whole society and their own wealth. These underclasses are under severe stress. The U.S. as Rome did, fails to measure the present these present conditions for the future.
The assimiliation of different races and nationalities is referred as being the "melting pot". It sounds good but it plays out in many negative ways too. In Rome, it became a problem based on internal populations displacing Romans. The U.S. elite ruling class has intiated both and internal and external problem of workers and labor.
In Rome, the elite tried to drive their economy much like we are doing in the U.S. by making money on money instead of making things. They sought out the cheapest labor possible. This process burns itself out. The ulimate asset of any nation or culture is the value of their labor and work - money follows this value and it does not work the other way. Money is only a method of transaction and not a real product. It is an intangible result of work and labor.
In Rome, slaves displaced the citizens of a race that made Rome what it was. This is not racism as it would be labeled today but a simple fact of displacement by the numbers. No matter how clever and efficient, the new populations were as individuals, they were Romans neither in temper or tradition. They were apt to carry a slave's ideals of conduct into the performance of their new role as citizens. The fall of Rome was set in place by ill-considered expansion as we have with globalization and free trade today, the existence of slavery on a vast scale as we have the working poor, the under class and the immigrant workers today. In the end there was a displacement of Romans by "new" Romans. However, any displacement of the controlling classes in the U.S. will most likely be external more than internal since the U.S. moved their production and factories outside the U.S.
The white European traditions are weakening but the minority blacks have assimilated into these traditions. The latinos were here before the Judeo Christian European traditions were set up in the U.S. Constitution but they are merging with the U.S. heritage too - most likely on a give and take basis. The underclass and working poor are growing in mass numbers in the U.S. Because of their numbers, displacement of the elite classes will come but not in the same way as in Rome . The displacement will come more from outside the U.S. and may connect in the U.S. in some new form of solidarity as an outcry against Globalization and Free Trade. The U.S. should be preparing for the post-Globalization era or even more frightening a new form of Globalization that absorbs the U.S.A as an ant. Relatively speaking, the U.S. is a small country. It would still be small even if it merges with Mexico and Canada compared to Asia.
With this we can perhaps predict the what will happened to the U.S. What made the U.S. great is fading away. The elite classes have made the same mistakes as those in Rome with the exception of Rome's fall being more internal.
Making money on money instead of making things; competing with human beings as a commodity instead of the core asset and the displacement of a culture and tradition that established the strength of the original foundation predicts what happens in the future. After the money games are over, the culture comes to take over for better or for worse. Rome was never the same after they went through the process. In the U.S., the white European heritage is fading away. Liberalism has played its part in its undoing. See The Rationale Quest . Something new is on the way. Hopefully, it may be something better than it is now. It could be better if we stopped ignoring the centuries of philosophy and the religious heritage that made us who we are.
Ultimately, it is all about defining the Common Good and putting it into practice.
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