Making Things With Your Hands
BH commented "Personally, I think the worst part about the economy is not the fed, it is the fact that you idiots can waste your lives arguing and pontificating on the Internet (without actually producing anything of value) and pretend with a straight face that you are contributing something to society. Maybe you guys should become farmers or scientists and build things with your hands."
We Nattered: You make a good point, not actually producing anything of value. Most of our current economy is this way, our trade and primary export is our paper dollar and debt. We used to make things, Zippos, Harleys, etc. Now we are the masters of making nothing from thin air, M and A, leveraged buy outs, stock buybacks, dividends, all through the smoke and mirrors of financialism and securitization.
But how do you know we aren't or at one point were, farmers, scientists, mechanics or people that build things with our hands, know what an honest day's work is and actually produce something? In the day, before wireless phones, cell phones, pagers, the internet, all this connectivity and the grid... we would meet at the local watering hole.
People would not be texting and checking their smart phones, and we would discuss the news of the day and might have intelligent discourse. I suppose you would walk in and also call those guys idiots to their face, while telling them they should make things with their hands. Your comment would produce nothing of value, and they would gladly oblige you. A few would make hand symbols with an extension of the middle index finger, others fists, with which to beat you about the head accordingly after your demonstration of utter ignorance.
We Nattered: You make a good point, not actually producing anything of value. Most of our current economy is this way, our trade and primary export is our paper dollar and debt. We used to make things, Zippos, Harleys, etc. Now we are the masters of making nothing from thin air, M and A, leveraged buy outs, stock buybacks, dividends, all through the smoke and mirrors of financialism and securitization.
But how do you know we aren't or at one point were, farmers, scientists, mechanics or people that build things with our hands, know what an honest day's work is and actually produce something? In the day, before wireless phones, cell phones, pagers, the internet, all this connectivity and the grid... we would meet at the local watering hole.
People would not be texting and checking their smart phones, and we would discuss the news of the day and might have intelligent discourse. I suppose you would walk in and also call those guys idiots to their face, while telling them they should make things with their hands. Your comment would produce nothing of value, and they would gladly oblige you. A few would make hand symbols with an extension of the middle index finger, others fists, with which to beat you about the head accordingly after your demonstration of utter ignorance.
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