Many University graduates will be heading for a "career" in an under the table, black or grey market, to pay off their student loans, because of high unemployment. What if "under the table economies" that are free from being tracked or taxed were, and are, in reaction to, equivalent to all preditory profit economies?

I only had one semester of economics at Rutgers University and anything even remotelt having to do with standard deviation makes me have heart palpitations. All I recall of economics 101 is the difference between macro and micro economics, if that, even, but I agree with Gore Vidal who said that the political economic system was transformed into "socialism for the rich (banksters) and capitalism for the rest."

Films like "They Live" the 1988 Sci Fi film by John Carpenter Might wake all of us up to how we are all numb! It's a subversive, disruptive film where special sunglasses reveal subliminal commands behind commercial ads. The subliminal messages say "OBEY", "No independent thinking", etc.

I really want to make films, perhaps documentaries, etc., about issues
like what Gore Vidal said about socialism and capitalism.The closest I have gotten to making films, as of yet,unfortunately, though, is attempting to get my students to want to act out scenes from "They Live", etc.

In "The Allure of Capitalism, an Ethnology of Managment and the Global Economy in Crisis, Emil A. Royrvik writes about how the "Gold Standard" was abandoned in 1973, and this seemed to lead to the
PATCO (Air Traffic Controllers Union) and then most other unions being replaced by enhanced informatics, like instead of needing face to face communication re: grievances, etc., technolgy began replacing people. Soon we may all tell our symptos to a robot MD, etc.

All these "imagination innovations", could be called classical technology. The technology revolutionized Air Traffic Control. I was/am personally interested in the PATCO strikes, etc., because in the 1970's I was a flight attendant, while I was also attending undergraduate school at Rutgers University in NJ.

Then, upon further reading of "The Allure of Capitalism..." I was, making connections, seeing similarities in the shadow, black to grey,
underground, under the table, "one off", etc., "ACTIVITIES" that are
considered "crimes" of tax evasion, etc., immoral conduct, etc., to
derivative financialization instruments that were considered
innovations. In other words is the sub economy equally as
non-productive, and as "predatory" as, especially derivative type, sub prime mortgages, student loan bundling, etc., type "financialization" cons?

Along with the quote from Gore Vidal (page 222), The author of "The Allure of Capitalism..." mentions an "Ontology of situated Potentiality" (Page 229) I would call this simply LIMITLESSNESS FINANCIALIZATION IMAGINATION where, for example, the desperately poor MUST innovate and thus, as a result of necessity have LIFE OR DEATH EXPERIENCES that are ABSOLUTE and/or they "necessitize" due to life or death ABSOLUTES whereas the rest of the world, those who have, granted, RELATIVE, luxury can "contingencise" and settle for status quo QUALITY OF LIFE PERFORMANCES.

The desperately poor are, as a result of having these ABSOLUTE LIFE
EXPERIENCES are free from emotional defensiveness about them, because instead of INTENT there is NECESSITY. Unfortunately, the despeartely poor are still "LABELLED" as sociopaths, psychopaths, etc. Such demonization, and dehumanization is, IMHO a kind of SUB-CONSCIOUS , perhaps RESENTIMENT, by others, especially the 1% and the mass of 1% wannabes, 1% hangers-on who directly and/or indirectly serve the 1%.

All of us who have the luxury of being free from being desperately poor mostly SETTLE for QUALITY OF LIFE PERFORMANCES VICARIOUSLY and PARASITICALLY (and safely, with zero risk) take over and desire these ABSOLUTE experiences of the desperately poor without paying for them! There could be a new form of "poverty currency" is whatI am saying. But instead all the desperately poor get "PAID" is with religious, and legal, moral guilt and "otherness" negativity heaped onto them.