1. The next 7 million jobs lost factory work mechanized, office work automated; FIRE economy created debt-based respite but that's over. 2. State failure to manage the economy select from free Survival+ 3. the plantation /colonial model of debt-serfdom 4. fragility and resilience of social structures, of people, goals, values. Inner strengths based on transparency and mutual benefit. 5. The devolution of authority youth defines identity by rebelling/resisting status quo authority. as that authority devolves and shifts focus to collecting revenues, then what will youth find to resist? Resistance shifts to dwindling middle class which is being squeezed for tax revenue and working poor being stripmined by fees, penalties, etc. Current politics of experience frames identity as a series of store-bought externals (including tattoos) rather than a value system expressed by creating alternative voluntary transparent structures. As youth finds cash money increasingly scarce then marketed store-bought symbolic externals will be replaced by non-industrial scale, non-corporate-brand community engagement--true resistance rather than the faux rebellion of "rebellious brands". The older generations which are being squeezed will experience discontent and even rage as the entitlements which were prmosed them in exchange for a lifestime of compliance and labor devolve. The State, as it strains to support its Elites and apparatchiks, shifts from Savior State to stripmine-the-citizen oppressor. the generational relationship to authority will shift as youth increasingly view the State with a clear-eyed understanding that it has little role in their lives and is a burden rather than an asset. It has been captured to served concentrations of power and capital, and they are effectively disenfranchised from the internecine battles between protected fiefdoms. Older generations will find the social pact they implicitly agreed to dissolving/devolving as the Savior State becomes an increasingly oppressive burden on the productive. Those who can will opt out; others will simply slip into resentful poverty. 8. The lesson of the tortilla Much can be learned from the process of subsistance economies being transformed into market economies for centralized profit. As concentrartions of State power and capital reach marginal returns and necessarily over-reach and devolve, then this proeces reverses. tortilla flour (corn masa) was once ground by hand, a laborious process that took up to 5 hours a day for the women. Once mills arrived in the villages, the women could have the corn ground for a cash money price. this was resisted by both women and men, as the social reelations between the sexes was disrupted by this newfound freedom from toil and the necessity for cash. 9. solutions will be localized, contingent on feedback, flexible, decentralized, no-industrial factory/central authority model 10. Taxpayer settlement (humor0 11. financial event horizon 12. export-led economy?? 13. CRE


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