Economics

Well , it looks like my post was posted in cyber space… I made a half-ass copy… coming soon… Mutrer Fricker! Fuck off WP! Wasn’t that good anyway

Economocs:

We cant afford it: bullshit we can afford anything

Imagine two communities: one has decided to never raise the minimum wage. The workers can barely afford food, shelter and transportation (to and from work) they cannot afford to purchase the goods they make in those factories. Those goods can only be afforded by an affluent segment of that society. That is the way that society remains in that state forever  


Now imagine a community who’s workers share the same fate as community one. One day the government in community two decides it needs to increase the minimum wage. Employers in those communities go mental “we cant afford that, we will go broke” they cry but the deal goes through. Now suddenly the workers can not only afford the basics but now they can afford to buy each others products. Suddenly the factories have a spike in demand and a proportionate increase in profit.

Now imagine some bright bulb in community two has an epiphany: He realizes that everybody’s standard just increased and being a bright bulb suggests we try that raise thing again? So with much grumbling they give all the workers a substantial raise: well lo and behold things improved once again proportionately to the to the higher rate of the second increase. The workers can now afford frivolous crap and manufactures of frivolous crap see a boom in demand for their crap. Again the bright bulb suggests we do it again…

Meanwhile back in community one heads are starting to swivel and, their brilliant deductions team suggests; we should try that and away ‘they’ go…

The only looser in this scenario is the earth: the earth has to endure an assault on its resources and pollution! In, marches Swedish teenagers and now we have the EPA being funded by all those factories who’ve noticed the prosperity gains, etc! A segment of these new prosperous communities is building wind turbines and sequestering CO2 and buying frivolous crap and around we go.

Now imagine that, that prosperous arrangement starts take hold in other countries: now we have less need to exploit poor labor markets or “take” resources from other (poor/defenseless) countries.  A recipe for peace… possibly?  We can now concentrate on reducing the population/carrying capacity of the planet and develop technology to mine asteroids rather than oceans    

And, the reason this idea or any other idea will not work is because even if the idea weren’t fraught with flaws nobody is listening or should I say paying attention. Not necessarily to me but in general and those who are listening aren’t on the same page; Conservatives would rather use force, like in the good old days, they despise the left and there silly pacifist notions.

I give up, we’re doomed!

G