[ExI] economic parableRe: Sudden outbreak of democracy baffles US pundits

[hkhenson]

At 05:34 PM 10/7/2008, Emlyn wrote:

>I posit that the service economy is actually hiding the fact that the
>majority of people in the west are now unemployable in any productive
>sense. That the economy is structured such that we can still consume
>massive amounts of products, while contributing nothing of substance,
>is probably what underlies the current financial crisis, and implies
>deep sustained crisis.

Having been here when I have been talking about the space based solar 
power project I am sure you can appreciate just how hard it is to 
work up interest in producing real value.

I have yet to get someone to go over the numbers.  Or if they have, 
they didn't tell me about it.

Keith