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[johnny9fingers]

That last post of mine was so naive, I mean I wrote:

And doing something means investing. Which means taxes. And paying teachers a wage commensurate with their responsibility to the next generation.

Of course, our only responsibilty to the next generation is to saddle them with as much debt as we can manage by indulging in our desires for luxuries and fripperies. Collectively, we seem to emulate the least intelligent, sensible, and able of the Bennett sisters, talking about spending money on things they don't need, nor really want: like badly-made hats and ribbons to put on 'em.

Yeah. We don't invest anymore. The 'short now' (as Jasper fforde would have it) weighs against investment. Collectively we don't think much of our kids, and we consider our Grandchildren even less.

The Anglo-Saxon cultures have no proper concept of long-term, which is good as we don't appear to have a long-term future.

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[masquedbunny.livejournal.com]

Fforde's other idea, "stupidity surplus," comes to mind. It's a good comparison really; on governmental scale at least (on a personal level too, actually--evil, evil credit cards), money has steadily become something intangible and abstract, like stupidity, and that makes it too easy to spend. Never mind the pack-rat mentality supported by the modern Western world.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Well, after this present administration, we probably have a 'sensible surplus' that has been built up over the last eight or so years.
We may have used up all the stupidity we can afford.