We Assume Too Much

The jobless rate fell to 9.5 percent in June, still far too high to signal a healthy

economy.

That is a typical news remark. Unbiased journalism
Who is the "authority" that decrees what a healthy economy is?
We all just agree on this because we have been told what to believe.

Let us make a new assumption.
10% unemployment is a healthy economy.

What is wrong with that idea?
I'm sure everyone would object to that idea. But why? We have been told what to believe. Who really understnads what a "healthy " economy would be?

We live in an economy that makes people sick. It drives them to death. It causes war and drug addiction and depression and cancer and heart disease and VD and murder and litigation and rape and on and on.

Maybe a healthy economy would not do all those things?

Maybe if people were less impatient and less greedy and less ambitious etc.

But I don't think this will change any time soon.