Do you get the feeling that when the ruling elites talk about unemployment that they've never been unemployed?Unemployment to professional beltway types means "the time period you have to live off of severance before you can get a new think tank/Village bobblehead/lobbying/boardroom/college president/'Hey, check out who's on our letterhead!' position" so the answer to that is "yes, pretty much."
Sadly I think they honestly assume that it can't be bad out there when the Ruling Elite unemployment rate is really more like five percent, so really Americans are doing just fine. Besides, people are still buying things like iPads and Prius hybrids and Starcraft 2 on the PC so the economy has to be pretty good. I mean the Dow's still over 10k even after a horrible week so we're a little slow but hey, the guys in charge have it under control.
Right?
Posts
2 comments:
This is a bit off topic, but the one thing I'm kinda liking about Steam and Battle.net's content service is that games are becoming a sort of durable good of sort. Previously, you lost the discs, you lost the games. Destroyed? Too bad. Misplaced them when moving? Too bad.
But yeah, at least you can buy a game and play the hell out of it for a while. That'll save a lot of money, one thinks. One imagines most people think games aren't exactly necessary, but people need something to do in their lives between work and sleep.
Lucy: Who am I? Where am I?
About to get gone, that's where. WTF?
Post a Comment