{"id":42977,"date":"2025-04-18T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=42977"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:34:09","slug":"sooner-or-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/04\/18\/sooner-or-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooner or Later?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sooner-or-Later-0.mp3<\/a>
\nSooner-or-Later-0.mp4<\/a>
\nSooner-or-Later-I.mp3<\/a>
\nSooner-or-Later-I.mp4<\/a>
\nSooner-or-Later-intro.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n

[Intro]
\nWill damage come
\n(Sooner or later?)
\nWe’ve come undone
\n(The eliminator)<\/p>\n

[Verse 1]
\nThe models
\nAre untested
\nNothing jells
\nEconomy arrest4ed<\/p>\n

[Chorus]
\nWill damage come
\n(Sooner or later)
\nWe’ve come undone
\n(The eliminator)<\/p>\n

[Bridge]
\nRun!
\n(It\u2019s the Service, Stupid)
\nCan’t believe you did what you did
\n(Fundamental misconception)
\nAin’t no fun in misrepresentations
\n(Devastation!)<\/p>\n

[Verse 2]
\nThe jobs with pay
\nDidn’t go away
\nIt’s just the way
\nWe chose to play<\/p>\n

[Chorus]
\nWill damage come
\n(Sooner or later)
\nWe’ve come undone
\n(The eliminator)<\/p>\n

[Bridge]
\nRun!
\n(It\u2019s the Service, Stupid)
\nCan’t believe you did what you did
\n(Fundamental misconception)
\nAin’t no fun in misrepresentations
\n(Devastation!)<\/p>\n

[Chorus]
\nWill damage come
\n(Sooner or later)
\nWe’ve come undone
\n(The eliminator)<\/p>\n

[Outro]
\nRun!<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE SONG: — It\u2019s the Service, Stupid: Understanding the Real U.S. Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the most fundamental misconceptions of Trumpenomics<\/em> is the belief that the United States is\u2014or should be\u2014a manufacturing-first economy. In reality, the U.S. has evolved into a service-based powerhouse and is now the world\u2019s largest exporter of services, including finance, healthcare, education, software, intellectual property, and other knowledge-driven industries.<\/p>\n

This misunderstanding leads to flawed policies, especially regarding trade and tariffs. By focusing solely on manufacturing, Donald Trump\u2019s economic rhetoric and calculations ignore the true engine of American growth: its service sector. Consequently, trade deficits and labor dynamics are misrepresented, giving the public a distorted view of global economic relationships.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the claim that American jobs have been \u201cshipped overseas\u201d doesn\u2019t stand up to scrutiny. The vast majority of high-paying jobs in the U.S.\u2014from tech and logistics to finance and retail\u2014were never exported. Companies like Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and Walmart generate millions of high-wage, service-based and technology-driven jobs that never originated as U.S. manufacturing positions in the first place. These firms pay some of the highest wages in the country, often without union representation, and their core operations remain solidly domestic.<\/p>\n

Many of these companies outsource some<\/em> manufacturing to countries with a comparative advantage\u2014not to \u201csteal\u201d American jobs, but because the U.S. never had a competitive edge in those areas to begin with. Attempting to resurrect those jobs now through protectionist measures only undermines U.S. competitiveness and innovation.<\/p>\n

Labor policy should be forward-facing. The labor movement must pivot from defending obsolete jobs to championing education, reskilling, and innovation. As with the buggy whip\u2014once essential, now archaic\u2014progress depends on adaptation, not nostalgia.<\/p>\n

The truth is clear: America\u2019s economic future lies not in reindustrialization, but in continuing to lead the global service economy. Failing to recognize this does more than hurt economic efficiency\u2014it risks steering the nation backward just when it needs to charge forward. By eroding global confidence in the U.S. as a reliable trading partner, Trump risks permanently weakening the dollar and undermining America\u2019s ability to finance its debt at sustainable levels.<\/p>\n

Trumpenomics: The Decline of the US<\/a><\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

From the album “Deviation<\/a>“<\/h3>\n

The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sooner-or-Later-0.mp3 Sooner-or-Later-0.mp4 Sooner-or-Later-I.mp3 Sooner-or-Later-I.mp4 Sooner-or-Later-intro.mp3 [Intro] Will damage come (Sooner or later?) We’ve come undone (The eliminator) [Verse 1] The models Are untested Nothing jells Economy arrest4ed [Chorus] Will damage come (Sooner or later) We’ve come undone (The eliminator) [Bridge] Run! (It\u2019s the Service, Stupid) Can’t believe you did what you did (Fundamental misconception) Ain’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14],"tags":[4118],"class_list":["post-42977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-deviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42992,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42977\/revisions\/42992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}