Did Gary Hart in 80s say loss of industries ok--US would become global food source?
I think the article I read then was maybe in the Atlantic.
He said every new stage had its winners and losers. So sure, factory workers in northern states would lose jobs, but that was just the price of progress..
Loss would be made up by burst of jobs in the agricultural sector as US took advantage of its soil and weather to become the food-producing giant of the world.
I remember reading this article and thinking how incredibly calloused and cold-blooded it was!!
Please note--I'm not sure the article was by Hart. I remember it being by him because I so admired him and found the article so different from my perception of him.
The idea that the US would go from a global industrial giant to a global agricultural giant was as I recall, an attempt to deal with the changing US economy.
Some yrs later I read articles that claimed the US had gone from an industrial economy to a service economy. It had become the global headquarters for all types of financial services.
As I recall, there was little discussion of how the US domestic economy replaced factory jobs with ,much lower paying food service jobs.
But hey! All change has its losers, right. Accept your lower income as just part of world progress! You can't fight history!
