DON’T LOOK! .. they say. .. YOU MUST READ IT, we say. Pero AGREGO: si los costos son mayores que los beneficios.. el YES del titulo del art no tiene sentido: 2+2 is not 5. Ese YES orweliano es distopico y obsoleto. Es lenguaje de apoyo disimulado al Gbno de Trump.
This is how our entire status quo
maintains the illusion of normalcy: by avoiding a full
accounting of the costs.
The
economy's going great--but at what cost? "Normalcy"
has been restored, but at what cost? Profits are soaring, but at what cost? Our
pain is being reduced--but at what cost?
The status
quo delights in celebrating gains, but the costs required to generate those
gains are ignored for one simple reason: the costs exceed the gains by a wide
margin. As long as the costs can be hidden, diluted,
minimized and rationalized, then phantom gains can be presented as real.
Exhibit
Two: opioid deaths. One of the few
metrics that's climbing as fast as the national debt is the death rate from
prescription and synthetic opioids:
Exhibit
Three: student loan debt. Here's a chart
of debt that is federally originated but paid by individual students: the
infamous student loan debt that has shot up over $1 trillion in a few years.
You see
the point: the cost are skyrocketing but the gains are diminishing. The
costs of maintaining the illusion of "normalcy"--for example, that
going to college is "still affordable"-- are soaring, while the gains
of a college education are declining as credentials and diplomas are is
oversupply. (What's scarce are the real-world skillsets employers actually
need.)
Americans
are in pain, and the cartel-sickcare "solution"--"non-addictive
opioids"--is reaping a horrendous toll on all who trusted the sickcare
system to deliver non-addictive painkillers. Should the newly addicted
sufferer no longer be able to get the synthetic opioid prescribed, the option
of choice is street smack (heroin), and this is why heroin deaths are soaring
along with deaths caused by synthetic opioids.
Pain has
been relieved--but at what cost?
The elites
within the Big Pharma and higher education cartels are reaping enormous
salaries, bonuses and benefits
while these cartels wreak havoc on America's vulnerable underclass (i.e.
the bottom 90%). Monumental sums of cash are flowing from the
many to the few while the many become addicted to opioids or enslaved to
student loan debt.
The
financial media is euphoric over the billions of dollars of profits reaped by
smart phone manufacturers--every kid needs one, right? But at what cost, not just the financial cost, but
the cost in addictive behaviors spawned by smart phones?
This is
how our entire status quo maintains the illusion of normalcy: by avoiding a
full accounting of the costs of a system set to maximizing profits by any means
available, a system of public-private
pillage overseen by the protected few at the expense of the vulnerable many.
It's as if
we've forgotten that debt accrues interest,
i.e. claims on future income. Debt is easy to ignore in the initial euphoria of
spending the "free money," but once the depreciated value of what was
purchased and the interest starts weighing on the borrower, the borrowed money
is revealed as anything but "free."
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