STRIGHT TALK
MARK BARNES: Taking jobs to the people like the Chinese are doing solves employment conundrum
You’ll find that anything truly successful that endures beyond a fluke was part of a plan. It’s not always exciting, or even much fun, to adhere to a plan, but it works. Living the dream is only possible if you’ve been living the plan. Most plans, with the benefit of hindsight, are obvious in their foresight. They were obvious at inception too, but just too difficult to embrace — too hard, too unpopular, too long term. Instead, in the name of popular promise, we move from simple but difficult to complex but convincing. We find acceptance in the cleverness of confusion. We say, "Yes, I get it", when we know it’s wrong, but we’re too scared to stand up and be counted for what’s right. I believe everyone wants to work and be productive, but it’s not that simple — jobs aren’t just around the corner. People have to forsake the familiarity of their home town and head for the city to join the queue, get a job. What if, instead of expecting people to come to established business, businesses...
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