The Forever Recession (And the Coming Revolution)
4th October 2011
Seth Godin is just a bundle of cheer.
Why do we believe that jobs where we are paid really good money to do work that can be systemized, written in a manual and/or exported are going to come back ever? The internet has squeezed inefficiencies out of many systems, and the ability to move work around, coordinate activity and digitize data all combine to eliminate a wide swath of the jobs the industrial age created.
For which the only solution the left has, is to try to delay the inevitable by burning through other people’s money. And when that runs out, well, we’re back in the shit, only this time without the resources to build something new, the seed corn having been distributed in the form of welfare checks. Thanks a lot, guys.