Via Fast Company
I know old habits die hard, but at what point are we going to give it up, kids? A twelve-billion-dollar spending deficit for the month of January alone?? And Christmas spending (which this mostly reflects) was actually down 3% from 2008. It just makes me wonder exactly what it’s going to take to make people stop the madness.


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It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]






This gives me a tummy ache.
Sadly, this madness is helping to keep our economy afloat. Damned if we do…and damned if we don’t, eh?
You’ve uncovered the giant flaw, Jack. The whole economy is predicated on an unsustainable system of ever-increasing spending on crap nobody needs. The overwhelming truth is that the whole thing has to be scrapped because it’s still a giant house of cards that could blow over with the slightest breeze. We are a bad quarter away from utter disaster as long as this is our model for economic progress.