the dismal science

the second photo is a side-bar from the new york times i scanned into my computer because the answer to that question, while it has several sub-texts, is fairly obvious and my hope is it was rhetorical rather than a literal search fro information...if it was a cry in the wilderness ( and the times can howl out there occasionally ) i will have to rethink my position somewhat ( not much however...all media are pretty much stenographers to power and outright propagandists...joe goebbels got nothing on these folks )...okay...back to the side-bar...economists wonder a lot...they are the theologians of capital and have erected complex structures of bullshit rationalizations for greed and when those structures prove faulty they have to retrench and explain away the "anomalies" that so disturb them..usually they do this by blaming "externals'..inconvenient facts that disrupt the smooth lines of their bullshit theories so they ignore them as irrelevant..which is why the "externals" ( like the environment we all live in and its capacity to provide raw materials and absorb all the ugly by-products industrial capitalism creates...that is irrelevant..or was until quite recently..and they are still trying to get around it..it will be a stubborn issue for them )...so, basically, what i am saying is they are asking that question because they don't have an answer that fits the theories...there is an answer though and it is unpalatable in public relations terms...greed...capitalism is a consequentialist system...it's what people have that matters to it not how they acquire it...so ruthless greed is an acceptable mechanism for acquisition...if workers have more money ceos and shareholders have less...since they sit atop the pyramidal, authoritarian ( how many rights do you have at work? ) they are in a position to write the rules ( and this would include a great deal of monetary influence in the august halls of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government ) and make the distribution of wealth their province and they take as much as possible...wealth is the final ethical good of the system...factor in the amount of money that is being funneled in to repair the damages wrought by the "non-exisxtant" bogey man of human driven climate change and the money supply has another sink-hole developing that will be even more demanding that any scam driven "fiscal crisis"

this photo of a smoky evening horizon sent to me by a close friend in southern california yesterday could serve as an index of where a good deal of cash is going to be going soon..and you will , no doubt, see extensive legislative efforts to limit or eliminate payouts of any sort of remuneration to all but the share holders in the very near future...there is slime in swamptown and they will crawl for their handlers.