re: #155 Joanne

What the monied interests want is a few top notch people and a slew of plebs who’ll be happy just to have any job, me they won’t be able to leave. This is a poorly educated, willing to work at immigrant wages, won’t rock the boat and be damned thankful for what crumbs they have.

We have a short-sighted problem here. What drives the economy is disposable income. The same disposable income mist job creators don’t want to give (it cuts into profits). You can’t grow when people can’t spend. And that’s a full stop. Period. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. No disposable income, no economic growth.

Yeah, I think we need to rethink the whole “growth” concept. We are growing ourselves into poverty, crime, ignorance and drug addiction.

Somehow we are going to have to find a way for the system to value the non-paid work that is the most important. Parenting, volunteering, elder caregiving, etc.

It is the person-to-person work that makes the “economic growth” worth while.