Comments on: AxisOfEasy Salon #14: Jobageddon and the Coming Education Revolts

By: suz per

suz per — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:00:07 +0000

I love the big picture thinking that evolves from these conversations -it gives me hope, to have a view. I like how Anne Applebaum speaks to discussing with the others who view the situation differently. She even says that we will get the end result that we discuss, and formalize. It’s so heart warming to sit here, in spain, and listen to you guys. It makes me more interested in life, and more fully alive. That to me, is why I listen.

By: David Barnett, Ph.D.

David Barnett, Ph.D. — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:23:22 +0000

Jobaggedon: With the new emerging feudalism, one wonders, what is the point?

In older feudalisms, the production surplus was modest and so a lavish life-style required the effective enslavement of large chunks of the population.

This new feudalism is the result of a huge productive surplus of material things. Very few people are needed to maintain even very lavish levels of consumption. How long will it take the gazillionaires to realise that turning everyone else into serfs is pointless?

By: David Barnett, Ph.D.

David Barnett, Ph.D. — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:34:12 +0000

With Covid-19, the general lockdown approach may well have been counterproductive. The spring 1918 lockdowns had the perverse effect of making the autumn 1918 wave more virulent. There was much more excuse for it in 1918 because that pandemic affected young adults as well as older people.

In the case of Covid-19, an unfocussed general lockdown was wholly unjustified.

Big cities that were badly hit by Covid-19 early (like London UK or New York City), probably have so little circulating virus right now, that false positive tests would swamp true positives.

Given the above, the remark about people attending bars unmasked may not be appropriate. A lot depends on the age and general health of the attendee. Young fit people shouldn’t worry. It may even be advantageous for them to get the disease and build soem community resistance. Older people need to be a little more careful.

One question to be asked is why the rush to a suppression policy versus a management policy? It reminds me of the saying, “War is the health of the state.”