THIS Is The Future Of Work In America

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Charts showing the rise of healthcare as an employment category.

Besides flipping each other's hamburgers, we will be emptying each other's bed pans.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/healthcare-employment-2011-12

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1. not likely

Those numbers may be true if you project out current trends, but the likelihood of current trends continuing for more than a few years from now is zero.

If you want to see the future of America on our current path, you need look no further than Brazil:

[Ready4Change]

2. Yep.

A few super rich in heavily guarded gated/walled communities, surrounded by vast slums. And then, at some tripping point, the many in the slums will realize what is what, and we will have an American version of the French Revolution.

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3. Why hasn't it happened in Brazil yet?

Is Brazil or other countries a guide to the future for our country?

[Ready4Change]

5. It doesn't obey precise mathematics.

But history is chock full of examples. Our own American Revolution is an example. Some erupt with very little lead up, others stew for generations. All along there are some people predicting things will come to a head 'any day now.' I've heard various people declaring such ever since I've been politically aware enough to pay any attention at all. ('70s or '80s.)

[mazzarro]

4. Wow! abject squalor and wantom oppulence side-by-side

Survival of the fittest and dog eat dog mentality of die-hard conservatives. Common good is out the window!

[WildNovember]

6. How are healthcare and military spending similar? In both cases, the goods produced

are used up almost immediately.