Posted by
ML Smith on Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:07:24 PM
Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Emphysema, Mental Illness, Serial Killers, Killers who kill without the box tops, Drug cartels, Drug dealers, Drug users, Car accidents, War, Terrorism, Pornography, Pedophiles, Weapons of Mass Destruction, All addictions, Death regardless of cause, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Global warming, Shoplifting, Corruption, Incompetence, Impotence...the list is endless.
Now, let’s pretend for a moment that none of these things existed. How many jobs did we just eliminate? Millions...maybe billions? More? Where would all the auto mechanics work if cars were built to last more than 5 years? And if we abandoned internal combustion, who would employ all of the military personnel required to protect oil interests in the Middle East? Now we’re talking about millions more in jobs.
There are many who will say my thinking is faulty. The money paid out in salaries to stem the tide of the “bad” could be used to make the world a better place. Sounds reasonable. But we don’t want the world to be a better place. That’s why we don’t have cures for diseases - just pills that people must take for the rest of their lives. There are a lot of people employed in the pill business.
To make the world a better place, we would be un-employing the world. The only people employed would be those paid to find jobs that don’t exist for those that never wanted to work anyway.
So I say to you, the system we have that perpetuates death and despair works. And if it ‘aint broke, don’t fix it.