24 04 2007 Tue, 24 Apr 2007The Middle Class -- Its own worst enemy? (Another proposition for Lou Dobbs) Periodically, the Middle Class sucks itself dry. That is the core of economic cycles. Not everybody can work at a desk -- somebody needs to sweat. Ideally, the Middle Class serves to remove (consume) material excesses from a society before imbalance, e.g. gluts, can develop. It is a sink more than a resource. It is a tool for distributing and neutralizing the advantages of material resources.
Cyclically, it eliminates itself by its efficiency and growth, but smolders like amphibian eggs under a desert creek bed.
"I do believe evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can’t help thinking that... and this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why and where evolution is headed and that's why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap." -Kurt Vonnegut recently on the Daily Show. 
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