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Inflation or Deflation? What will Peak Oil cause?
Re: Inflation or Deflation? What will Peak Oil cause?
by AgentR11 » Sat 27 Oct 2012, 19:36:23
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'b')oth you guys give the impression you believe Big Gumint and/or Evil Corporations are the problem.
You ought to know my position better than that. The problem is the multi-billion population of an apex predator. There is no kinder/gentler humanistic culture that includes billions of 100 lb - 250 lb predators. How we, as that predator, express it internally is almost beside the point from an ecological standpoint.
Internally, we use economics to decide who gets to eat, how much they get to eat, and what they get to eat. By accident of birth, I am granted the luxury of lots of meat, crunchy fresh vegetables, real sugar, milk, and other treats; and am permitted to consume them in a comfortable, climate controlled environment while being entertained by the labor of other members of the species. It is a level of luxury unmatched throughout human history. Someone else, through similar accident, will struggle, desperately searching for every last kernel of grain hiding on the ground, and eventually die through the ancillary diseases associated with malnutrition.
The topic of this post though, sharpens its claws in between those two positions, taking the largest bite from those who considered themselves middle class; but were simply wage labor in a time of excess. Now that said excess is vanishing, inflation of essentials, and contraction of per capita, real economic activity, are working together to drive that large so-called "middle class" back into poverty. A poverty from which most will never escape, because the excess in cheap energy that existed before, that permitted excess wages and luxury, is gone... forever.
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And so shall we remain,
Until the end.
And so shall we remain,
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