Reply #138: Seal up the Mall Clones in the BioFitCorpDome and rebuild the Real World for Real People [View All]

Let them feed the Corporate Beast ("Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!") in a closed loop system while independent-minded folk build the model for Life After The Corporate Rug Is Pulled Out From Under The American Economy.

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"...I have what I consider a serious and legitimate concern about what this ever-lengthening Christmas phenomenon means to the basic underpinnings of our national economy...."

"...The twisted shell-game our economy has become over the last twenty-or-so years stands upon some very shaky underpinnings and a whole lot of uninformed faith (it was twenty years ago, almost to the day and as an important aside, that the United States went from being a creditor nation to a debtor nation, a dark day whose consequences we have yet to fully realize). The need for a REALLY BIG CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SEASON becomes more important every year, by my lights, which is pretty much why the Christmas shopping and marketing season seems to stretch farther and farther away from the 25th of December."

"Given the in-my-opinion fact that the ever-increasing importance and lengthening time-span of the Christmas shopping season makes people less and less likely to actually shop, at some point the gears of this process are going to start grinding against each other in a loud and economically-dangerous fashion."

"Maybe people are spending less when they go shop for Christmas, a possibility bolstered by the annual boy-this-last-shopping-season-wasn't-as-strong-as-we'd-been-hoping-for news reports, but people are definitely going shopping. Boy howdy, are they, in maddened, rude, spastic, pissed-off-to-the-quivering-edge-of-violence droves."

"If this thing is as important to the economy as we hear, we are all in bad trouble, because sooner or later it will eat itself. It is not sustainable."



The more that more people start getting this, the better. Thought-provoking OP-- too bad it was hijacked by someone who didn't get it. You've connected a lot of the dots, drawing back 20 years ago to "a dark day whose consequences we have yet to fully realize" --- and yet we do realize, you said it right there:

"It is not sustainable."