tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431155047274769321.post7258288668873485280..comments2022-04-01T15:15:22.555-07:00Comments on The Mr. Obvious hall of Fame: With or without economic recovery, the issue is a jobless world.John Hubertzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12864202084982209993noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431155047274769321.post-49958578822424240102013-12-01T00:48:16.314-08:002013-12-01T00:48:16.314-08:00Good comments all around. A person's worth is ...Good comments all around. A person's worth is slowly being seen as more than his or her job. I have been unemployed for a long time and I have learned that my contributions as a volunteer are just as valuable as those made by paid employees. The only problem is how to live with no employment income. If so few people are going to be employed, we need to come up with a way that people can volunteer or engage in other ways to help society and at least be provided with the basics needed to survive.DSwaitkewichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09910598887597854861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431155047274769321.post-86717152476835376372013-09-29T20:45:04.336-07:002013-09-29T20:45:04.336-07:00I must say I enjoyed this post enormously. You ma...I must say I enjoyed this post enormously. You make excellent points on the matter, and it is a somewhat bleak prospect if it were to happen as you say. <br /><br />Do keep in mind, however, that America is changing at a mind-blowing pace which suggests collapse before stagnation. The current structure is extremely temporary and the United States as an entity is impermanent. It couldn't persist in this form for long.<br /><br />I know that sounds awfully weird to say, considering Americans seem to be brought up to habitually think of the U.S. as the country 'too big to fail', but the Soviet Union fell apart within your life time. Several other states have been dissolved within that period as well and many were more stable than we presently are towards their last day. We're not facing something new, even in this country. <br /><br />We have a deeply unpopular government, rife with special interests, enmeshed in multiple wars, with a bloated military and vast surveillance systems dedicated to monitoring imaginary threats. This can't persist another ten years. Maybe not even five. <br /><br />Joblessness is only one facet of the collapse and smaller, more localized economies will emerge, given time to take the place of the greater system. If you want a working picture of what is coming, look to the somewhat overused but still accurate image of a living jungle. A mighty predator dies. Many, many small creatures eat its corpse, breed, and evolve. The cycle continues. <br /><br />Don't despair. I promise, you won't be bored by what's coming, job or not. Zecathttp://www.fimfiction.netnoreply@blogger.com