Doing The Same Thing

One of the Presidential candidates said that we, whoever we is, have to raise the pay of the vast majority of workers.  You do the same job, but get more money for doing it.  Unions functioned that way.  For a while, that worked.  Then we discovered the rest of the world had an emerging labor force.  So jobs left the country.  Neighborhoods fell apart and so on.  Steel is still being made but not much of it is made in USA.  In my world of spirituality, you cannot keep doing the same thing and expect better or different results.  Recovery programs know this as well.  You have to change what you do or how you do what you do.  Education, job skills, soft learning skills, is where the time and effort ought to go.  My teaching on the mystics tries to broaden/expand peoples' horizons so they can better pursue the spiritual life.  The book, "Our Kids" by Robert Putnam is quite good in explaining why a lot of people have low skills and little education.