Quote from: Surly1 on Jan 09, 2025, 02:59 PMQuote from: RE on Jan 07, 2025, 06:42 PMFake jobs with fake employees with fake layoffs and fake unemployment numbers and fake participation rates in the fake workforce. Fake reporters for fake websites reporting the fake statistics to a public faking they can read. I fake that I give a shit. lol.
Reality isn't important, just image and opinion. The truth is a lie and crime pays as we come to the closing days of the Age of Oil.
RE
I've been reading your work since, what, 2008–9? The above statement may be the truest thing you've ever written.
I'm reminded of an old Soviet Russian axiom: "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
Yes, that old joke from the Soviet Union came to mind for me as well.
Nice to have you back reading and writing too.
RE