[JasonC]

You know, you are right. In fact, everything people spend money on is pointless, except what I want it spent on. The economy would be just fine if I owned everything. When other people have any income and spend it on the things they want instead of on the things I know to be important, it is a complete waste.

Hand everything over to me. Problem solved.

Sometimes it is necessary to illustrate absurdity...

[dennisw]

For those men of working age there are not enough jobs to go around. That’s part of the reason so many useless government jobs are cooked up

We can produce enough food and manufactured items with an ever smaller number of workers. To avoid this cruel truth we create asset bubbles. We keep many employed in white collar sectors which do nothing to increase our wealth. Wall Street and lawyers come to mind. Dittos for mortgage brokers....many of them have no job since the phony housing boom collapsed

I am old enough to know an age when the labor of all working age men was needed. This is not how is today. Go open up some useless malls. Many malls and Sams Clubs are closing because they were never needed in the first place

[dennisw]

Maybe your labor is as pointless as a global warm-monger. These climate scientist are another sign of how structurally out of wack our economy is. They are basically welfare bums on the gov’t teat who cannot find private employment for their weather skillzz