What I'm thinking Wren, and I'm just a thinker not a economics expert of any kind... I think the difference is this time the local fall out is from globalization, which means when the dust settles It's not going to be Canada, Spain, or England that gets everything. Technology and transportation has made us into a global community. Each person has become their own little independant corporation. Nobody stays at their job their whole life. There's still niches. My brother keeps learning Japanese because he's in video game design. It depends on what you're into. If you're going to be a doctor you gotta learn Latin, right.


I'm a "planetary native", I've got the button and the patch.
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