Rules for surviving economic depressions:
Oct. 21st, 2010 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lb1. Be wealthy.
2. If you can't be wealthy, be indispensible.
3. If you're neither wealthy nor indispensible, have powerful friends.
4. Otherwise, get back in the gutter where you belong, idle scum.
Democracy's been a grand experiment, for sure. Won't it be nice when our corporate masters relieve us of the last of its burdens? I mean, who doesn't love an oligarchy?
This post brought to you by the UK's Spending Review (now we have nowhere to run except to neo-Thatcherite revolutionaries!) and our very own budgetary projections: the ESRI forecasts a 'lost decade'.
I think it might be time to start learning Swedish. It's cold up there, but they still have something resembling civilised democracy.
Don't they?
2. If you can't be wealthy, be indispensible.
3. If you're neither wealthy nor indispensible, have powerful friends.
4. Otherwise, get back in the gutter where you belong, idle scum.
Democracy's been a grand experiment, for sure. Won't it be nice when our corporate masters relieve us of the last of its burdens? I mean, who doesn't love an oligarchy?
This post brought to you by the UK's Spending Review (now we have nowhere to run except to neo-Thatcherite revolutionaries!) and our very own budgetary projections: the ESRI forecasts a 'lost decade'.
I think it might be time to start learning Swedish. It's cold up there, but they still have something resembling civilised democracy.
Don't they?
