I've wondered about that, being a possible (at this time anyway) new format forced refugee. Yet maybe it's good timing. The masses won't be in such great shape to operate as consumers of all the ad stuff anyway. Unless the government thinks it's bad news for them to not get messages regularly to stimulate spending their canned food money at the mall.

Meanwhile FA had a strange experience yesterday. Not really "looking" for a job, but curious about the economy and thinking maybe IF there was something part time, it might not be a bad idea to eventually do something other than the videos....checked out what the main local newspaper's on-line "careers" classified ads looked like. Well, the number of ads was hanging in there, 45 short (10 hits/page) pages. But something was weird.

Now, FA knows that a lot of sectors have moved to specialized job posting sites and that there are always health needs. But I swear, the firs 24-25 pages were nurse this and nurse (or related) that....and in the remaining pages there was only a rare insertion of something like truck driver or call center bodies needed. It was medical one thing after another, all the way to the end. Could there have been some kind of newspaper ad category repeat worm involved? Surreal.

I thought, holy smoke, what is wrong with this picture? Construction naturally would have disappeared, but secretarial and sales and the like also?

What are "ordinary" people supposed to do for work? And second question, if they can't pay for insurance, how are they supposed to keep all those nurses busy? OK, maybe this way: Within the past few days I saw pics of an annual "free health clinic" event that was held in a tent in the mountains not long ago, and there were all these what looked like non-private dental chairs lined up with chubby legs and feet sticking out of them and upper bodies hidden by the angle of the shot, with volunteer doctors leaning over them (surely it had to be mostly dental).


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