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Oct. 23rd, 2003 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kodalaiOn the down side, there's a fire on Mt. Baldy. The northern sky is consumed by smoke. It's very depressing.
On the up side, one of my classes has finally worked around to a point that's seemed frustratingly obvious to me for weeks.
The professor who talks about economics all the time has been stressing, from the start, that capitalism is a system based on dynamic tensions, stresses and conflicts, that it is inevitably widening the gap between the very rich and the very poor, and that it requires constant and infinite expansion.
Frustrated, I finally say, "But expansion can't be infinite. Sooner or later it will have to hit bottom, and collapse."
He says, "Yes! And that's why the system needs to change."
Hallelujah.
But he let us go a half-hour early, so I'm all happy. It is now officially the weekend, i.e. more time for me to put off all this work which has piled up over the break. Yay!
On the up side, one of my classes has finally worked around to a point that's seemed frustratingly obvious to me for weeks.
The professor who talks about economics all the time has been stressing, from the start, that capitalism is a system based on dynamic tensions, stresses and conflicts, that it is inevitably widening the gap between the very rich and the very poor, and that it requires constant and infinite expansion.
Frustrated, I finally say, "But expansion can't be infinite. Sooner or later it will have to hit bottom, and collapse."
He says, "Yes! And that's why the system needs to change."
Hallelujah.
But he let us go a half-hour early, so I'm all happy. It is now officially the weekend, i.e. more time for me to put off all this work which has piled up over the break. Yay!
