The green shoots have taken root, the recession of 2008 is gone forever, recovery is here. I’d like to believe that, I would also like to believe that Santa and the Ester Bunny will bring me stuff but well, you know how that goes right?

What we are actually seeing right now is a larger divide between the haves and have nots. Not the class warfare haves and have nots, that are really just a shield for the elites.

This is due to a shift, a shift in technology, collective psychology and an insistence on clinging to a past paradigm that is dying. The following is from the movie Harrison Bereron.

Teacher – “What do we call the period after the end of the cold war”

– “What do we call the period after the end of the cold war” Harrison – “The Great Recession”

– “The Great Recession” Teacher – “And what made this recession different from all recessions before it”

– “And what made this recession different from all recessions before it” Jeanie – “It never really ended, it just kept going“.

– “It never really ended, it just kept going“. Teacher – “Why?” ..Class doesn’t know..

– “Why?” ..Class doesn’t know.. Teacher – “Harrison?”

– “Harrison?” Harrison – “Well in all previous recessions once the economy bottomed out and production increased, unemployment decreased. Um, but in the great recession because of new and improved technologies, fewer and fewer workers were required in all sectors. With so many people forced from their jobs, the traditional economic recovery was impossible.

– “Well in all previous recessions once the economy bottomed out and production increased, unemployment decreased. Um, but in the great recession because of new and improved technologies, fewer and fewer workers were required in all sectors. With so many people forced from their jobs, the traditional economic recovery was impossible. Teacher – Exactly by the year 2018 only 15% of the population had jobs. America was divided into two camps. A highly skilled and prosperous elite and an unemployed destitute majority. What happened next, Garth?”

– Exactly by the year 2018 only 15% of the population had jobs. America was divided into two camps. A highly skilled and prosperous elite and an unemployed destitute majority. What happened next, Garth?” Garth – “Well the people who didn’t have jobs were very unhappy. And they started making trouble. Like they bombed buildings and had riots and killed people and stuff.

– “Well the people who didn’t have jobs were very unhappy. And they started making trouble. Like they bombed buildings and had riots and killed people and stuff. Teacher – “Right and that was the beginning of what we now know as?”

– “Right and that was the beginning of what we now know as?” Class – “The Second American Revolution”

– “The Second American Revolution” Teacher – “Right and we’ll stop there for today”.

Let me ask you honestly how prophetic this sounds if you just change the year 2018 to say 2028 and move it only 10 years forward? Mind you this movie was made in 1996!

Join Me Today to Discuss

What is GDP and how does it show us a “recession”

What changes were made to how GDP is calculated, why does it matter

What does technology replacing 2% of jobs a year for 10 years mean 23 million jobs eliminated With a flat population unemployment would be about 23% Current unemployment is claimed to be about 5%, why this is a lie

Why I think 2% is a very low number, lower then what we should expect

How this transition is like slow sinking quick sand

Why the younger you are the worse it could be or the better it could be

The type of thinking necessary to adapt to this, (the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling)

Why true ecologically sound production is a great play right now

In spite of everything build, invest smartly, learn, grow, create, get shit done

Resources for today’s show…

Special Note – the claim that a 2% loss in jobs per year for ten years equals 23 million jobs is based on the following math. According to The Wall Street Journal there are approximately 138 million jobs in America. The numbers below are rounded off to the nearest million. In year one a 2% loss leaves – 135 million jobs

In year two a 2% loss leaves – 132 million jobs

In year three a 2% loss leaves – 130 million jobs

In year four a 2% loss leaves – 127 million jobs

In year five a 2% loss leaves – 124 million jobs

In year six a 2% loss leaves – 122 million jobs

In year seven a 2% loss leaves – 119 million jobs

In year eight a 2% loss leaves – 117 million jobs

In year nine a 2% loss leaves – 115 million jobs

In year ten a 2% loss leaves – 112 million jobs 138 million minus 112 million equals net loss of 26 million jobs.

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