{"id":2291,"date":"2010-04-13T19:33:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T19:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-04-13T19:39:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T19:39:43","slug":"if_you_want_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"If You Want To Know Why We&#8217;re In So Much Economic Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;just look at this:<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"184\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"chjart.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/media\/chjart.png\" width=\"485\" height=\"285\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/form>\n<p>\nThe economy of pushing bits around representing money is doing relatively well.<\/p>\n<p>The economy of making stuff and selling it each other &#8211; not so much.<\/p>\n<p>And as much I detest the thought of an economic future where my kids either engage in a tournament to see if they can get jobs at Goldman, or decide that making or selling luxury crafts to the people who do is their plan &#8211; it&#8217;s worse, because it&#8217;s unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/basically-the-economy-is-back-to-being-ridiculously-overdependent-on-finance-again-2010-4?\" target=\"browser\">The Money Game<\/a>)<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t be a nation of financiers and those who wait on them&#8230;but we&#8217;re heading that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}