As soon as I figure out who to sell this idea to, I've got it made. Inspired partly by bonddad's wonderful
college debt diary..
OK, so college is getting to be unmanageably expensive, right? We can't afford to educate our own citizens. Here's the trick: We make it easier to outsource high paying jobs to countries that DO offer easier financial access to higher education. All I have to do is figure out who would be willing to sell out their own country for the sake of a few bucks. Besides myself, of course.......
So after I sign someone up, probably some megacorporate CEOs, we send all the jobs to China or India, as China apparently trains 3.5 engineers for each of our 1, according to something someone said in bonddad's thread. Who cares, it sounds good and I'm on a roll. The CEOs can sell
our the jobs to foreigners who will
accept less pay since there's more competition among them for work over there! And I'll get a cut from the grateful CEOs. Sometimes I am so blinded by my own brilliance that I have to wear shades when I type.
Hm, maybe I should get some corrupt and soulless politicians in on it, to structure global treaties facilitating job leakage... I'll call it "Free Trade" or "Global Integration" or something hard to argue with on the surface, and I'll make sure nobody gets PAST the surface by making it harder to read than gibberish written by a dyslexic epileptic.
I am going to be living SO large with this
conspiracy streamlining plan.
something's missing, though. If the proles get wind of this they might not vote for my pet politicians. What to do... what to do...
ah, what to do but convince the people it's in their best interest! excuse me [lights a Cuban with a $100 bill] ahh. I'll have to go with the "Free Trade" moniker and distract them when they try to look past the "Free." [aggressively waves flag and shouts you down, irrespective of logic or flying spittle]FREEDOM FREENESS FREE FREE FLAG FREEEEE PATRIOTISM LIBERTY FREEDOM FREEDOM HERITAGE FREEDOM!
The beautiful thing is, the plan is circular and self-fulfilling! For you see, nobody will be smart enough to figure out my shenanigans as they will be dumb for having missed out on college! Meanwhile, their jobs get shuffled overseas as they are convinced in their naivete to vote for the very process which disempowered and uneducated them, causing their jobs to get shuffled overseas,making it harder to afford an education, causing them to lose their jobs to cut-rate overseas competition at the same time they vote for that to happen, leading in turn to more outsourcing and less college ... HAHAHAHAH...
what do you mean "someone beat me to it?"
Shit.