I little while ago I discussed the absurdity of treating unproductive labor as though it was a contribution to real GDP--the society's annual output of consumable and investible goods and services. Now comes Mr. Obama preaching that the unproductivity of paper-shufflers is an "ideological" concept and that the millions of them in the health- insurance swindle (not incidentally, disproportionately young black women) must be kept at their wasteful jobs because otherwise "what will we do with them?" Likewise,I'm sure, with the millions of (black
male) prison inmates and (white male) guards, etc. "What will we do with them?" And so forth and so on. So the candidate of "Change" underlines that even in the most wasteful and destructive parts of the US capitalist system no change should be thought about because "what will we do with them?".
Who was it here who was denying that US capitalism is in a long-term crisis of stagnation, disguised by "schachermacher accounting" of the National Account Books and financial looting masquerading as "profitability?"
Shane Mage
^^^^ CB: May we discuss your long term crisis of stagnation point ?
As to real production, isn't there, now, more production of use-values consumed by the masses of the population, the working class than there was at the beginning of the long term you refer to ? If the long term is 35 years, weren't there fewer use-values ( real products) produced 35 years ago than now ?
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