What the Heck Happened to our Economy?!?

“The entire system we have built our lives around has been turned upside down.”

— Seth Godin – page vii – Linchpin

For the first time since the economy crashed…

in the summer of 2008, I feel like someone has actually explained on a higher level what has actually happened. Because it’s bigger than just a broken banking system and less jobs. The world has changed. The global market has caused the world we have known to disappear forever. And I feel like Seth Godin is the first person I’ve read who actually has an accurate beat on what has taken place.

“The system we grew up with is a mess…”

— Page 3 – Linchpin —

Seth points to the fact that this change didn’t happen overnight & it wasn’t caused by the economic crash of a few years ago. It’s been 2 generations in the making and the economic crash just accelerated it to the surface.

Seth points to the fact that our education system has indoctrinated us to believe that if we’ll work hard, then the System will take care of us. In other words, “Fit in and you’ll be fine.” Unfortunately, as Seth points out on page 4, “The educated, hardworking masses are still doing what they’re told, but they’re no longer getting what they deserve.

He continues…

Page 61 – “Of course, this makes most of us extremely uncomfortable because we were raised in that system as well. It used to be easy to write them off, but now we are faced with the reality that “The jobs of people who followed the same rules we did are now in jeopardy.”

Which raises a few questions for us…

which is where we’ll pick up tomorrow.