One final thought before bed

[andrewducker]

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[del-c.livejournal.com]

The starving lasts (doctors tell me) about two weeks, as I pointed out to a friend who said that "except in the short term" there is always as much employment as there are people to be employed. I said this was obviously true if you swept things like the Highland clearances under the carpet on the grounds that they were "in the short term".

Keynes would have slapped him with a fish. People's whole lives are about "the short term".

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

I was thinking mostly about the benefits to the survivors of not having to worry quite so much about carrying capacity - ecological overshoot, saturating the atmosphere with CO2, running out of resources.

The statement "there is always as much employment as there are people to be employed" is, on first blush, nonsense. But having thought about it some more, it's still nonsense.