We Demand Demand
We demand demand. We’ve spent the last 30 years paying for it. Most of us owe most than we’re worth. Soon our credit will be so bad that no one will take our cash. If we’ve paid taxes, we own a bank, a car company, an airline. Who knows what we’ll own next?
The only thing that is going to get us out of this crisis is effective demand, and lots of it.
The lower it goes, the more effective it is. We’ve ran out of credit and string and houses to prop up demand. So we demand the same excess that bought hell knows how many hookers and lines of coke on Wall Street for those at the bottom who have ended up paying most dearly for 30 years of free-market theology. To the bottom first. And from the bottom up always.
More inefficiency. Doing less with more. Less work, more workers, more money, more coffee breaks, longer lunches. More universal subsidies, more social transfers. More tolerance for shoplifters and late payments. More 20-hour weeks and six-month paid vacations. More telling the bosses to go fuck themselves and laughing in their faces.
DEMAND DEMAND!