Farmers, not bankers, will be driving Lamborghinis in future
Jim Rogers has been banging the drum for agricultural careers for a while now, but he's becoming increasingly specific about the joys that await farmers in times to come.
His rationale (as told to The Economic Times) for farmers' imminent enrichment is as follows -
The world has been consuming more than it produced. Food inventories are at a multi-decade low. And we haven't had any bad weather. We had isolated cases of droughts and things. That may never happen again. But if it does, the prices of food would go through the roof.
If there is climate change taking place, the best way to participate is through agriculture or through agriculture products. There are many positive things happening. Right now, there is a shortage of everything in agriculture - seeds, fertilisers, tractors, tractor tyres. We have a shortage of farmers because farming has been a horrible business for the past 30 years....
The world has tens of thousands of hotshot fund managers right now. If I am correct, the financial community is not going to be a great place to be in for the next 30 years. We have many periods in history when financial people were in charge, we had many periods when people who produced real goods were in charge - miners, farmers, etc.
The world, in my view, is changing and is shifting away from the financial types to producers of real goods, and this is going to last for several decades as it always has. This may sound strange but it always happens this way. Ten years from now, it may be farmers who will drive the Lamborghinis and the stock brokers will drive tractors or taxis at best.
Separately, Roger's own site contains the admonition:
"All your viewers who got MBA's made a terrible mistake, the should try to go down and exchange them for farming degrees or mining degrees"
