I dont know about you, but most of the people I know have busted their ass their whole lives. It has nothing to do with laziness.
I don't know much about you, but I think you're a generation my senior. The people you know may have busted their asses their whole lives, but the young generation today is largerly (and I know this is a generalization with some exceptions) an "entitled bunch" that doesn't want to work hard or bust their asses. Before the young on this forum take up arms at this comment, remember that none of us here are typical of mainstream society. We're on a forum about electronics, talking science everyday. We're atypical. Most of the mainstream young generation today isn't willing to bust ass or open books in order to secure their own future. They don't want to work hard. Our society idolizes accidental wealth, and celebrity status. We play the lottery, and expect crap to work out. We're short-sighted.
Again there are exceptions, but in aggregate, we've got a much less motivated society now than we've had in that past. Further, especially in the US, they are so tax-phobic that public education is generally poor for a lack of funding, with typically poor uniformity across the country.
How is the average Joe Blow going to create industry when they are out of work because of all the outsourcing of jobs in the area, and the price of necessities has almost tripled??
Totally valid question / point. For one, the average Joe (and everyone else) can stop buying crap that they don't need. Have you every people-watched at Walmart? I do it all the time (I actually like shopping there too). Look in the shopping cart of a low income mother, buying goods for her family. 9 times out of 10, 9
items out of 10 are far from necessities. I see mostly crap/garbage/junk in those shopping carts: Non-nutritious fatty and sugary garbage snack food, cheap trinket doileys to decorate their home, copious supplies of cosmetics and other make-up overkill, and all sorts of other completely non-essential items. Fun fact - Walmart actually sells milk, eggs, bread, and even frozen whole meats like chicken. I have never, not once,
ever, seen an obviously low-income family, with any of these core whole foods in their carts. I'll see them with a $3 box of Eggo sugar waffels, but never a $2 carton of Eggs. I'll see a $5 pack of Coke, but never a $4 carton of milk.
Or because their start up companies fail because giant corporations can offer the same services for 1/3 the price? Its not the peoples fault we became consumers. Corporate outsourcing has take all the jobs from the people, and they have profited hugely on it. They have manipulated the system to funnel the most money they can from the population. Its capitalism at its finest. They have it down to an art form. Only they have the control to bring back industry, and make incentives for people to prosper. But that will never happen, and thats BS. How much is enough? How many cars, houses, yachts, property, ect does one person need before they start thinking about other people other than themselves?
See, outsourcing is 95% within control of the masses. If we voiced our dissent with our wallets, and bought locally made/grown products/foods, then outsourcing would not be an attractive option to corporate CEOs who have a duty to shareholders (often regular people BTW) to maximize profit. We don't do that. We've happily bought crap made elsewhere for so long, that now there often aren't locally produced alternatives to buy
if we wanted to. Outsourcing is something that our own consumerism has spurred on. The argument that CEOs are so crafty that they're to blame for us buying foreign crap that we don't need, is non-sense. I take responsibility for my decisions. If I've bought something, it's because I've wanted it, and have consciously decided to part with my money
for it. Blaming "corporations" for us spending money on foreign-made junk that we don't actually need, is the pinnacle of an immature inability to take responsibility for our own decisions. It's an angsty teenager's argument, not the reasoned reflection of an adult.
Look, everyone loves a bargain, I'd never blame anyone for that. It takes a lot of self control to say
"I'm going to forgo this bargain, because I don't like the future it promotes".
(I bet you lazerer.com sells 10 crappy junk lasers for every 1 domestic build sold in the BST section) 
