Originally Posted By: ironraven
Originally Posted By: martinfocazio
What's happening now is bigger, more complicated and more chaotic (in the mathematical sense) than 1933.


Too true.

Not the least of the changes is that we have something like a tenth the number of farmers as we did then. Nowadays, we have more people on some form of housing subsidy who are of working age and not disabled than we have farmers in this country.

Learned that at work last week. Kinda blew my mind.


The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
Jeremy Rifkin, 1995

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work
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