[ProCivitas]

Thanks for Googling. The Chess term is the most relevant for 'endgame economy'. Well, the Forbes piece kinda indicates that the more 'artificially insulated' portions of our workforce/economy do pronouncedly better than the more direct-market sector.(the 'third-party payer' syndrome) I'm reminded of a kind of 'crowding-out' effect ("Gresham's Law")one sometimes sees where agricultural use of land is out-bid/displaced by manufacturing, manufacturing outbid/displaced by services or residential use, and local independent retail by chains and often bank/lending companies.

If low-paying retail is the biggest and growing part of our economy, and if temp-services like Manpower are among our top three employers, and if American households have undertaken record debt; If our family-wage manufacturing base is eroded while we sell raw materials to corporations in other countries that sell the value-added manufactured result back to us -- too often on our credit card; If our trade deficit runs in the hundreds of billions and our national debt skyrockets, and our federal public employees consider 'monetizing our debt'(currency devaluation)...

Well then, our economy and nation would appear to be seriously undermined and jeopardized. Leaving the 'highly insulated' sectors/personnel of our economy (noted in the Forbes piece) we hope not unconcerned about the condition of their countrymen.

The Economic levels of Nations are not eternal -- like Liberty, they require a certain civic vigilance.

[AmishDude]

Why did you ping me? Please don't do that again.

[seamus]

Is that you, Ross Perot?

[VadeRetro]

I thought you had a joke on "How can you tell when you're in an 'endgame economy?'"

When the only reason you can still get a job is that not many immigrants can say "Do you want fries with that?" in English.

When your kids don't go to college because they might as well get started straight into used car sales.

Oh, wait! My list is starting to look like yours, anyway.