From:
kunstler.com/blog/2012/01/what-gives.html
Myth of Services
Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal (and EU, JAPAN and USA) must grow their economy (to pay back impossible debts), they must generate more goods and “Services”: now exactly what do they mean by services ? it seems that the fewer services “we need”, the fewer pains in the a*s in terms of interactions, relationships with other entities THE BETTER, the richer we actually are, the easier life is; the simpler the things we need to get implies fewer services, not more services. Who on earth wants to deal with more services ? what exactly are they talking about ? Oh, I see, all of that huge flufforama, complexity of having a million different credit cards, a million different ways to pay for the same BS, all of those consultants to tell you about all of these new discoveries about the economy and “Productivity”, all the new restaurant types and especially all of the new sicknesses and pills and psycho sicknesses, behavioral sicknesses, you name it sicknesses you can imagine so that there can be a million different new fangled kinds of pills, new doctor types, new “social worker” types, new specialized “nurses”(better if hot and horny!) types new health care center buildings and “services” and types, new exams, new tests, new [and put in any word of anything useless, not needed, just complicating your life, aggravating it, etc.] things.
And that is what must increase, we need more of all of that, get it ? We need to invent ever more things “we never knew we needed” to then count them in a computer and count how many of those there are and make the number of those things increase so the GDP of those failed and bankrupt countries start showing that they are “growing again” so that the financial jokers and poker game card players can trust that, if their economies grow they will eventually pay back their debts.
Now, honestly, how idiotic can you get ? you couldn’t make this stuff up!
I don’t believe in the Services economy, I think it is all BS, I think more services make everyone worse off, I think the less services we need and have the better and richer we are. There. I said it.
I also think no one in those EU countries and most of the world see the real problem: it will be impossible to create enough real jobs to pay back the debts, because extra jobs are no longer needed structurally because a Technological Economy kills jobs, doesn’t create them: also add in that we now have millions of new workers and areas of the world producing the “goods” part of the economy (think your LCD TV in South Korea, think China, India (your software ?), think Brazil, Indonesia, etc.) and you can be sure that the USA, EU and JAPAN are headed for a huge gradual economic contraction that will last years.
There is truly only so much BS that you can make up as services, it won’t work, you can’t fool yourselves any longer…
To Busty:
“Yum, yum, yum - I’m not fat, I JUST LIKE FOOD!”
"They eat their Pot Pies and watch cable TV "
You have deeply acquired a “Pleasure must be punished” mode of reasoning from you prior christian religion: but since you need to believe in god since you need to believe in absolutes, you have transferred that god to that huge turd called Nature, and since we punish nature by using it for our pleasure, we must all be punished. Nice job of fooling yourself, of making believe you don’t believe in god anymore.
We need ever more pleasure forever for all because we simply must be honest and say to ourselves: we are slobs, filthy slobs that just want pleasure and fun, and there is no god and therefore: EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY AND THEN YOU DIE.