[Smokin' Joe]

Needless to say, I was disappointed. I grew up into a world filled with hunger, poverty, and disease—in which we fight wars over dwindling natural resources. It is a world of pessimism and sorrow, in which people obsess over maximizing their share of the pie.

I think I see the problem right there. Many natural resources are renewable (food, for instance)--it only takes skill (and effort) to maximize those.

Those squabbling over 'their share of the pie' are likely not working to increase the size of the pie so all can have plenty.

That's back to the Liberal idea that if one has more another necessarily has to have less. Make the 'pie' bigger and there is more than enough to go around.

[Axenolith]

Another aspect of that, straight in this "investment" bankers face, is that the monetary institution is currently skewed 180 degrees from the natural order of productivity.

For the current banking system to work (and probably not much longer) it has to inflate the monetary base and claim that that "growth" is the result of economic productivity.

The era of Moore's Law creates jumps in productivity and reduction in costs that pepper the economic structure rapidly with deflationary forces which is death to unrestrained reserve banking.

Even before the current digital revolution, the tendency over time has been for costs to fall as people inventively find ways to provide goods and services to others at prices lower than their competition. Long term shortages and rises in prices are almost always due to organizations mucking up the free market or manipulating it to facilitate their goals.

[familyop]

"That's back to the Liberal idea that if one has more another necessarily has to have less."

Agreed! Sadly, though, all political sides now subscribe to that belief in practice (see local bipartisan fears of overpopulation, local NIMBY-regulator partnerships, using regulatory offices to prevent competition, bipartisan love of federal pork to state and local offices, bipartisan emergency-rescue regime, impact fees, etc.). Some deny it in political speech.

"Make the 'pie' bigger and there is more than enough to go around."

That's been outlawed in many ways in nearly every local, yocal locale for new, small manufacturing starts in rural areas. Property values...pristine views, appearances, you know. Local nouveaux riche commie gangs--government employees, former contractors, government-linked business and pensioners that they are--will ride the contemporary socialist beast right into bond collapse and repudiation of debt.

I wouldn't touch a stinking local political club with someone else's finger.

I'll watch the funny picture show, until they're done, then help to start a more free society in a more free and beautifully hard working and grubby community, part by part.

Build something ugly and useful. Starve the B.