We don't want to get dirty

We just don't want to get dirty. That, as many believe, is the problem with what the economy is, or isn't, doing right now. We all want to be clean, work at clean jobs, sit in the office, wear our clean white shirts. And because of that we don't make anything anymore here in the United States. We've run those industries out of our country and we've changed into a service industry. The problem with a service industry is that all we are doing is passing the money around. We aren't making money rather just passing it around. And because we don't want to get dirty anymore we don't want to do the work required to come up with better and more efficient ways of making things. Since we don't make things we aren't using raw materials. Raw materials is really where the wealth of manufacturing comes from. We take raw materials, like ore from the ground, and change that into real wealth. Then we sell that finished product and, as a percentage, that payment mostly goes into profits. China right now is making things out of raw, dirty materials. And, in most cases, is taking the worlds wealth and putting it into their pockets. We, on the other hand, simply are passing the money around but then we are sending the money over to countries like China. Why? They don't mind getting dirty.