Further evidence of (big-D) Depression?

[asindreams]

Consider the mutual implications of those thoughts in the context of the state of our economy. Starbucks casts a wide net in both cities and suburbs, the concentrated centers of population and wealth compared to small towns and rural areas. If people in familiar service positions in the most robust parts of our country are at risk of losing jobs

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[fivebyfive]

Rising food and gas prices just cause me to eat and drive less.

For Starbucks I will walk and starve.

[asindreams]

You're a star. A bright, shining star.

[smoooooothdeath]

Borders had stopped ordering office supplies when I stopped working there, and had abandoned some standard employee benefits (merch credits, free coffee and tea). Corporations are afraid. Our parents' generation is so dumb with money. They feel sort of sorry for it... but they are interested in their own survival. Surely something amazing will happen in the nebulous future to allay the impending doom their children face.

But I am of some kind of breed convinced anyhow that I am supposed to, compelled to work until I die. I wouldn't expect anything else.

[asindreams]

"Surely something amazing will happen in the nebulous future to allay the impending doom their children face."

I think that amazing thing is us. It'll require our parents to give up, though, and they won't like that one bit. But we are, informationally and technologically speaking, the generation most equipped to at least concoct the solution to some of what we face - even if we don't finish enacting it fully before the next generation takes over from us.

I am more optimistic of this than of many other things. But it is going to get a lot more frightening before it gets less frightening, this I also know. Old, unsustainable, death-fixated habits are hard to give up.