Michael Gurstein wrote:
mg> If we are all on the Titanic (as many are now arguing) this time
mg> there don't seem to be any realistic lifeboats for the rich to
mg> elbow or buy their way into so what does anyone gain by hastening
mg> the sinking?
To bend the metaphor excessively, if you've locked yourself in the
ballroom with a crowd of other nice people in evening dress, you don't
*really* believe the ship is sinking do you? Not as long as the
champagne and caviar keep coming up from the galley.
And Ray wrote:
reh> The lifeboats are the huge increases in cash accrued by today's
reh> wealthy....The ship is not sinking for them. They think of
reh> themselves as the Aristocracy did in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Right, like that.
I think that in addition there are a lot of people, not truly wealthy
but merely modestly affluent, who simply don't believe that anything
the size of the earth's ecosphere or of the magnitude of global
commerce & industry could possibly be in kind of serious trouble other
than locally and transiently. It's not just doubt or even
pathological denial. If their finances weren't shingled out onto the
fog a couple of years ago and they haven't lost their jobs/incomes,
they just don't believe it.
Muttering in my beard....
- Mike
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