08-20-2016, 02:07 PM
What if both supply-side (stimulate production by making it more lucrative to ownership and management through tax cuts on their high incomes) and demand-side (enticing people to buy more stuff) economics are obsolete? The only possible growth in teh demand for material objects comes as the result of population growth, itself a suspect objective.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.