It’s fun for the whole family and a perfect distraction from the fact that our economy has been stalling since 2008.
More like 2001.
Google "Jobless Recovery". Bush's economic growth was powered almost entirely by financialization and outsourcing. The real domestic economy hasn't seen growth in this century.
You can make a stronger argument that the US economy was still growing under Clinton than under Bush. Although, yes, the pieces for permanent stagnation were being put into place under Clinton and the Gingrich/Lott GOP.
Clearly bezos and musk are betting on space, but I just don’t see it.
Hard to have markets without people. And getting people into space is incredibly difficult relative to the benefit of them being there.
Amazon’s logistics development alongside google/Microsoft/IBM ai work is probably the more important stuff for our future society, but fuck it is miserable funneling it all through austerity politics
Either Marx was right, and labor power really does produce a better future. Or he was wrong, and capitalists can run the rest of us like gerbils on an exercise wheel forever, with minimal complaint.
I'm betting on Marxism winning out in the end. But it's going to continue to be a slog.
More like 2001.
Google "Jobless Recovery". Bush's economic growth was powered almost entirely by financialization and outsourcing. The real domestic economy hasn't seen growth in this century.
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You can make a stronger argument that the US economy was still growing under Clinton than under Bush. Although, yes, the pieces for permanent stagnation were being put into place under Clinton and the Gingrich/Lott GOP.
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Hard to have markets without people. And getting people into space is incredibly difficult relative to the benefit of them being there.
Either Marx was right, and labor power really does produce a better future. Or he was wrong, and capitalists can run the rest of us like gerbils on an exercise wheel forever, with minimal complaint.
I'm betting on Marxism winning out in the end. But it's going to continue to be a slog.