Evolution within Economies

You may have noticed that all the manufacturing jobs have gone to China, Brazil, India, and other 'developing nations'.  As a result, for example, Ontario is no longer the industrial engine of Canada.  Ontario is apparently now a lowly province compared to oil-sands sucking Alberta.  However, Albertan people engage in bringing devastation of their province through oils sands exploitation, in effect reverting to large scale extraction industries as the main sources of revenue.  

Humanity came up with large scale extraction, soon after agriculture.  Extraction led to urban centres, (see the transition from a farming culture in Egypt to building cities and pyramids, about 4,500 years ago, for example).  Then look at England in the late 1800's when manufacturing factories were first introduced, when businesses made loaning of money safe, and capitalism possible.  Service businesses like banking and law made it safe for people to lend the large amounts of money necessary to build a factory.  

Its a long story.  But Ontario is now firmly post-extraction, and post-industrial.  And service industries like retail are in decline. So what do you imagine the 'developed world' is up to these days?

Some people are referring to 'what's next' as a transition into a creative economy reliant on arts-based professionals.  These are the people that provide entertainment, architecture, and run hotels, for example.  

You've read it here first, in earlier blogs, and you'll read it again:

All 'developed nations' have entered the beginning of a coordination-based economy which delivers savings on
time, money and resources through mutual fulfillment.  

Manufacturing required service businesses like advertising that conditioned us to consume more goods.  However mutual fulfillment requires that we release some of that conditioning and be in touch with 'what we stand for' or simply, our knowing our individual principles and values.