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Where is the Hope? Where is the change-you-can-believe-in? When the truth is unacceptable, hope is foolish and change is misguided. To get hope and make change we must refute the mountains of bs that pass for knowledge. One small part of that bs is the idea that a service economy could ever provide enough income to replace the income lost to manufacturing. Do any socialists advocate a service economy? I hope not because it is just more crazy bs. Here's why. How can we expect a service economy to provide income for workers in an automated economy? The owners of resources, owners of the automated factories, and a few workers would divide all the income from the production of physical goods. That small group of people would have to spend almost all that money on services in order to get enough money back to into the service economy. Beyond the servants of the few with income from physical production, others in the service economy would be like fleas on fleas on fleas ... Unemployed neighbors trading laundry service for house cleaning will not give either one of them any claim on the physical output of the economy. Barry ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
