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I was in San Diego awhile ago and someone pointed a local landmark out to me. "That's the Taco Bell where Boyd Rice used to work."

How many Americans of our generation are actually doing something worthwhile? I mean, producing something? I'm not, and most of the people I grew up with who aren't living off the grid or impregnating each other in the vain hope of staving off mortality are doing something like marketing, or advertising, or law, the ultimate in parasitism. Our biggest industries seem to be HMOs, insurance companies and people who produce nothing but a paycheck and busywork. I don't know shit about economics, so I have no clue what it means, but how many times can the same buck be passed along, minus a 10% transaction fee?

I tell ya, I was reading Goldstein's book in 1984 again the other day, and the whole collective oligarchy thing started to make sense in a scary kind of way.



Interesting point, another is that Canada does export a lot of resources to the US and other countries but still over 70% of our jobs are dedicated to the retail industry. It's just retailers selling to other retailers. We have become the paper and product pushers of the world. Most forms of harder labor have been moved elsewhere in the world.