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Unfortunately, employment tends to be binary, either you have a job or you don't and it tends to be a rather large variable in the survival equation.
Picture 533,000 newly unemployed w/wheelbarrows moving O-NPK, converting land into permaculture plots, building narrow-gauge minitrains and SpiderWeb networks to 'ribcage' support the buildout of Alan's 'spine and limbs' standard-gauge ideas, Terra Preta industries and reforestation work, plus building minimal water usage facilities:
http://web.archive.org/web/19960101-re_/http://www.uni-kiel.de/sino/ar/s...
Or will the US fiddle around until we replicate Zimbabwe's 90% unemployment rate and short life expectancy? Are Americans ready to balance 100lbs of firewood on their heads while walking barefoot through broken glass, thorns, and sewage?
My guess is that China will move in this more optimal direction much faster than the US. Recall previous weblink where they are racing to build lots of additional standard-gauge track miles. Will China start building out narrow-gauge minitrain and SpiderWebRiding networks soon? Much, much cheaper than asphalt at $100,000 per mile.
Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
There's gonna be a lot more than 533,000 newly unemployed souls moving O-NPK...
Oh, and while you're at it, we can burn that asphalt with the right boiler (PDF WARNING!) and use our very roads to power our energy descent.
moving O-NPK... the story of my life
Remember when they thought we had too much broadband? Build it and they will come.
The actual number of unemployed in the USA is somewhere between 15 and 20 million. How many wheelbarrows are there in America?