Many people don’t want to work hard. But, they want a good income. Some have found that working for various tax-supported agencies is vastly easier, and much more lucrative, than private sector work. But, sometimes there’s a catch. They have to appear to be doing something useful, even if it’s something as ridiculous as the vast Department of Agriculture coming up with a “New Food Pyramid” every week or so.
There are very real few problems that anyone wants to solve. So, successful agencies turn themselves into “problem factories”. They seek new problems, alarms, frights, and fears. Then, they breathlessly announce, “We are all going to die (young, painfully, needlessly) if we don’t spend a lot of money doing SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT WE’VE FOUND! Our agency needs more funding to protect all of us, especially the (children, senior citizens, animals, plants, atmosphere, our way of life, the food supply) from this Frightening Problem. “
Some agencies focus on money. Financial Fright Factories magnify the problems of (Sub-prime loans, balances of payment, inflation, deflation, trade deficits, energy prices, food costs, etc,) and invent lots of Serious Problems “that will hurt working families, retirees, students, etc”.
It’s not just the tax-supported agencies that have frantic fright factories working full-tilt. The media needs lots of scares, too. Working hand in glove with tax-supported fright factories, they help, and are helped by, cranking out enough worries for every simpleton still paying attention.
With production automation and cheap imports, there are simply not enough production jobs. Just as one or two farmers now do what ninety five farmers used to do, manufacturing is putting out more products with fewer people. Similarly, services are provided with ever fewer providers.
That’s why scares and alarms are so popular. They give a lot of people who don’t want real jobs endless opportunities to get higher salaries by hurting their neighbors.
They just have to lie and exaggerate to make imaginary problems seem dangerous. Not a good way to prepare for a joyous eternity, but they do freely choose to get paid for participating in lies and exaggerations rather than doing useful work.
Those who choose to take money from neighbors with lies and deceptions may do well on earth. At Judgment? Not so much. We can’t love our neighbors if we lie to, and steal from, them. That’s: The high cost of lying and stealing.
