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RKP5637

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1. These, are extremely serious issues in this century, how to model the
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 07:31 PM
Apr 2014

economy for the masses. The old tricks absolutely will not work in this century. The carrot and stick will not work. It's quite difficult to have ever increasing worker productivity and expect full employment in meaningful jobs.

I recall well studying decades ago at the university that this day would come, when traditional methods of financial modeling for an economy for the masses would fail, and IMO we are there.

The oligarchs spread their propaganda, but it is all falsehoods. Most people are going to be financially screwed in the 21st century under the current model. And, TPTB really are not addressing it, because they don't know WTF to do, are indebted to the oligarchs for their political positions and will do little than window dressing for fear of upsetting their political gravy train.

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