If you ever get into a debate about Affirmative Action, you may encounter the white woman. The white woman in this debate plays the role of the usurper - someone who sleeps with the enemy, or at the very least has undue influence on him. She steals the jobs that were supposed to be reserved for the protected class using the technicality of her class to game the system. Therefore, instead of Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor, you get Debbie Reynolds in Fred's place. Surely it's a different movie but just as white as before.
I've just been handed another 'flash' which is that "1% of the people hold 90% of the wealth". It's a misdirected sentiment from anyone in the middle class. The middle class ought to be more concerned with associating themselves with economies of permanence. But where have all those flowers gone?
America still manufactures. There are still companies like Cincinnati, John Deere and Square D. There are still people around here who know what a press brake is or how gears work in a trans-axle. But I wonder how many of those jobs were Affirmative Action jobs. My guess is few. And there is something about our economy that went wrong when millions of white collar jobs began to outweigh the blue collar jobs and everything we started learning about business management improvement inflated the business management improvement industry instead of improving business. And there's something odd about an economy that is sustained by consumer products being upwards of 68% of GDP. And I like to quote Sheila Bair when she said that there's something wrong with an economy that makes so much money shuffling money instead of building things. And so we are witness to bubbles.
The video above has an 80% disapproval rate at YouTube. I don't think that is mere class conflict. I think it is a reawakening of common sense in the common man. I hope that at some point we will find the leadership who will know the proper direction for that energy and that we will not beat up on the wrong people. Sentiments against the wealthy for their concentrations of wealth are off target, rather we ought to watch what's being done with the money. Everybody needs to eat, but nobody should eat so much junk food. Every nation needs wealth, but not junk wealth inflated by junk skills and supported by junk minds.
I would be the last to suggest we should instigate some political movement towards planning our economy, rather we should become more disciplined and pragmatic accelerating the piercing of idiot bubbles. Let's make our market smarter by heaping opprobrium on the shallow, by making all our money smart money.
Equality means nothing if it means equality in mendacity, mediocrity or poverty.
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