OT: Some Millenials Not Listening To, Indeed, Even Mocking Stevie-Girl!

I heard some millennials talking about the false vacuum destroying everything. We're totally doomed!!! This economy shit is nothing.

Lol!

i really want too meet steviegirl in person...will probably have too wait until the summer when school is out for sommer break

DOOMED!

Oh my.

Well, we used to call such people yuppies. Now after the dot com boom, some of the types that emerged are better described as hipsters. But I think the ones @Dougster was listening to are probably yuppies.

You can go on and on about this economic measure or that economic measure. It really is meaningless, because look at the kinds of things which are having to be done to get the attractive numbers:

1. Huge military deployment and use of additional military contractors and military deployment soaking up substantial industrial output, and causing even further deficit spending. Once the military adventure stops, the unemployment numbers jump back up.

2. Constant need to "create jobs", because labor is in surplus. More and more "jobs" just cater to the needs of the few, and not to everyone, and not to those who actually hold the jobs.

3. Wreckless waste of non-renewable resources and environmental degradation. It serves no purpose because the "jobs" serve no purpose.

4. Most start up companies are just gambits for market control. Makes no difference whether they succeed or not. But what they all reveal is that there are not more worthwhile things to invest money or time and energy into.

The first one of these industrial recessions was in 1873. It was caused by excess production of steel. So there was large scale unemployment and then eventually consolidation of ownership. What was done about it was to end Reconstruction in the South, so that the South could be a kind of internalized Third World of consumers. Then the West was used a natural resource base to exploit, as well as an escape valve. Same thing is going on today on a global scale.

Each one of these recessions has gotten worse, but you just don't see it because of all the public policy moves made to try and contain it.

It makes no difference what is up or what is down, today. Because our system is broken. It is founded on bum principles. So no wonder you have people running around peddling right wing politics or religious escapism, or just plain alcohol and drugs. People can't face the truth and those in control don't want people to even know the truth.

SJG

Body Count, Live in LA youtube.com

DOOMED!

The American Dream is gone, because it was a dream which gave everyone a good chance of making it. The things people talk about now, including you Dougster, are things which will only benefit a portion of the population.

Democracy doesn't work under such conditions.

SJG

DOOMED!

Not just DOOMED, because out economic system has been broken for a long time. Look around you. You don't need to wait until sunrise tomorrow as the consequences have been upon us for a long time.

SJG