This article in The Atlantic manages to correctly diagnose a big problem with the current economic policies (if we can call them that) of Donald J. Trump: they will encourage the development of industries that are no longer crucial to the economy of the United States and will open up the door for democrats to portray themselves as the defenders of those that actually do.
This is the most important paragraph: “Job growth is now driven more by post-industrial occupations, which have more to lose from Trump’s agenda of “deconstructing” government at home and erecting barriers to immigrants and imports from abroad. Health care and education, and government at all levels, would face an employment squeeze from the budget cuts Trump is seeking. Business and professional services, from accounting to architecture, would have benefited from intellectual property protections and greater market access in the pan-Asian trade deal Trump jettisoned and the European deal treading water. Information technology and entertainment companies share those concerns. Travel and tourism firms fear that Trump’s confrontational immigration agenda (particularly his judicially-blocked temporary ban on entry from six Muslim-majority nations) will depress foreign visits to the U.S.”
The interesting thing is that Donald J. Trump, an old president who made money in very traditional industries, seems to be affected by one of the problems that much younger hip people are also having to deal with: our tastes seems to fossilize at some point around 30 and fail to evolve properly after that even if we focus on exposing ourselves to new information and ideas.
There’s plenty of information that this happens with music and that by 35 we start listening to our music rather than the music that’s popular around us and Donald J. Trump might be affected by the same issue as he supports his industries rather than the industries that are contributing the most to the wider economy.
Unfortunately the research into stagnating musical tastes shows that there’s no clear way to push them forward and that’s bad news for those who are expecting the current American administration to evolve in any significant way when it comes to economical outlook and policy.