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If real resources were the driver in this crisis going on right now we would see inflation pressure.
In my opinion, we are. But
That probably tells you something about the silliness of GDP but what does it tell you about inflation? We're certainly not less dependent on stuff than we used to be.
So raw materials shortages don't show up as much in the consumer price index, because service workers make do with less stuff.
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Obviously holders of wealth in financial assets prefer the former, which concentrates the loss real income on wage earners, to the latter, which spreads the loss in real income into some of the high income households. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
Maybe I'll settle for the more limited point that economic austerity is not an effect of resource austerity. TARA and all that. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
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