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A New Economy

I'm greatly dissatisfied. I cannot envision a future that is better. What has transpired since the 1980's in terms of the economy has soured me upon what is to come.

What is to come? A shitstorm. A nomadic lifestyle of subsistence for a great many. Possibly many here in the Western world included.

I recently read Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, a novella of cynicism and alienation. You want the future? Read that novel. That's the future for those without roots, who need to live payday to payday.

How about solutions? Not a whole lot. For one thing, Western governments need tearing down, and being rebuilt. That's a good solution. Political parties need insurgents who'll toss out onto their ear all the neo-liberals and neo-conservatives that've lead the world to this precipice of climate change disaster. Businesses need to dismantled. The economy needs rebuilding. We need a new economy.

I observe the Canadian state, and it's failing. It's selling its resources, hand over fist, for pennies on the dollar to US businesses that turn around and sell Canada manufactured goods at no discount. That's bad for Canadian business. That's terrible for Canadian workers. And it's awful for the dwindling Canadian consumer. Because the consumer and the worker are one and the same! All that'll be left of Canadians are those who provide services. Production is disappearing.

An economy and a society are not necessarily the same thing. An economy is a system of capital. But I'm coming to the idea that there are businesses, and then there are services. These are not the same thing. Business can make money from the creation of wealth via production, but services are in place to ensure there is a system to produce. However, extremist capitalists believe services can also be privatized—transformed into businesses: ie, postal service, transit service, and ect. However, services produce no capital. These services merely transport capital. They don't produce capital. I suppose to capitalists, there's no difference so long as they're receiving money. There are probably grey areas: building construction, but construction only lasts for so long.

There's no control! Having lived in poverty for stretches of my life, I can't help tearing my hair out watching this lack of control on the part of the government and businesses. It's waste, waste, and waste! There needs to be control on prices, trade, wages, salary, and so on and so forth. This lack of control on the part of the government and businesses will be the destruction of humanity if allowed to continue.

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