Flush it Down
I went shopping at Target today. Faced with that monumental amount of crap, I was reminded of what exactly is collapsing, and feel a lot less bad about the whole thing.
Perhaps next we can come up with an economy that supplies more people with basic needs and actually useful goods and services, rather than six different neon colors of plastic snakeskin purses that will break within a year of use.
Coming up, a more exhaustive and less flippant discussion of the shortcomings of capitalism.