The fall back position

[SHRED]

How many times have you heard, "Well, they still need us to buy things" as a "comfort" position?
Well what about the the rapidly growing consumer bases in India and China?

What happens when they don't need our purchasing anymore and instead turn to the billions of growing buyers in the countries mentioned?
Is the time approaching where we Americans will have to think beyond a "consumer-based" society?
Is this possible considering the commercialization of our culture?

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[JVS]

1. Then we get jobs again.

[RandomThoughts]

2. We need to build things that people and society needs.

However the profit motive does not create that incentive.

Once something that could be created out of no work, and out of nothing became the main motivator, the profit motive moved much of society to become creators of nothing but wealth that has no meaning. Skimming or making money from nothing, that has no real value.

The reason banking industry grew so much is they found that 'money' was what was important, and in the money system, printing money from nothing is most profitable, even if it does not add anything to society.

If all the bankers built something, taught something, added something, would we have need of anything from the material side of things?


Part of the difference of subtractive and additive concepts, although you have to be able to see both to have a decision, many can only see the subtractive stuff, like the bad emperor that thought Luke had no vision.