If you post a post to LJ, and your LJ world has disappeared and/or put you on their "mom-safe posts only" filter due to your incipient creepiness (or for just having not posted for awhile), does it make a sound
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And yet, we can't exist just to greet each other at Wal-Mart and to sell each other Frappucinos. And for most other purposes, we're just too expensive to keep -- eventually, some genius always notices this and asks, "Why are we feeding and clothing and housing you in particular, Mr. or Ms. American? There are people in India or China who can produce what the world needs, and they'll sleep 3 to a broom closet and subsist on a handful of rice and beans each day just to get away from their *rural* poverty, which is even worse."
If we all have to justify our existence, I think it eventually comes down to this: We must grow food because people must eat, and India and China cannot feed us. Big Agribusiness can't continue to feed us either -- as cheap as they can make food, an increasing number of Americans will have nothing to pay them with. So, it's back to subsistence farming for 20 percent of America, and we've only just begun to drop the standard of living for all us "middle class" folks who don't do something inherently local, like building or fixing houses and roads.
Ok, so filters, sure, not arguing at all that they're bad. I was just noticing how quiet the ol' friends list had become, and sadly imagining that I had fallen off *all* of them, since many people filter pretty much everything they write. I am a tragic figure.
If we all have to justify our existence, I think it eventually comes down to this: We must grow food because people must eat, and India and China cannot feed us. Big Agribusiness can't continue to feed us either -- as cheap as they can make food, an increasing number of Americans will have nothing to pay them with. So, it's back to subsistence farming for 20 percent of America, and we've only just begun to drop the standard of living for all us "middle class" folks who don't do something inherently local, like building or fixing houses and roads.
Ok, so filters, sure, not arguing at all that they're bad. I was just noticing how quiet the ol' friends list had become, and sadly imagining that I had fallen off *all* of them, since many people filter pretty much everything they write. I am a tragic figure.
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