How does it feel?

[asakiyume]

On Marketplace, they said they have a place on their website where people can write in how the economy feels to them.

Well.

I think it's kind of dry on top, but damp underneath, and there are prickles at the edge that ooze if you break them, and that stuff gives you a hella rash if you get it on you.

How about you? What does it feel like to you?

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

It feels like slogging through sticky mud as I watch my daughter struggle to find a decent paying job, and fail.

[shellynoir.livejournal.com]

I am watching so many of my friends struggle and suffer, and I'm reminded of the labrea tar pits, with the sweet water on top, and underneath the horror of "shareholder value."

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

"shareholder value" = a sanitized expression of greed before need.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Well, here's the damned thing: the way we're celebrating and enculturating private grasping reduces fruitfulness for everyone, including the privileged graspers.

It is good to be a freeloader among generous and productive entities. It is not especially good to be a possibly aggressive freeloader among possibly aggressive freeloaders-- not even if one's a well-heeled possibly aggressive freeloader.

N.B.: "Possibly aggressive" here means those who beat down labour and low-income persons. It does not here mean panhandlers or those receiving or needing socil assistance

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And for a lot of people in your daughter's position, it feels like thin ice and frigid water below, or like a scum of almost solidified rock over a bubbling pool of lava--depending on whether you like your torments freezing cold or boiling hot.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. That sure rings true.