Are we beginning to pick up on the pattern, finally, given the context of the most recent Capitalism++ blog posts, my dear Normals? I doubt it, but every few years I figure it's worth checking in again, shining a little LED into the back of your eyeball to see if there are any signs of the fog lifting.
Not yet, apparently.
If you're laughing right now, maybe we're getting somewhere. If you're offended beyond all sensibilities, then this screed's for you. Read on for more of your favorite addictive amygdala-juicing tongue-torquing manuscription; and it's all FREE, thanks to the magic of That Evil Government built interwebz and greater than 40% Actual Aggregate Structural Unemployment.
While the old testament recounts Israel's wandering 40 years in the wildness, the postscarcity testament reveals that the West has been wandering for 50 years in this bizzarre J.O.B. Trance.
The reforms we've been advocating over the past five years or so are nothing new; in fact, many were scheduled for deployment about the year I was born, and JFK was the man to get the program started.
Guess what kind of people didn't like that too much? Right. People with high powered rifles and generally suffering from hyperventilating, hyperbolic, revisionist tea party disorder.
So here we are, 50 years later, with all the same dysfunctions, only HALF A CENTURY WORSE.