Bad times often spur the creation of the biggest companies

Being Experimental is Mostly useful during Good Ti...

Though my article on "Being experimental-----" at the above word button is true for individuals trying to survive bad times it also should be said that companies like "Apple Computer and Microsoft" also started during times with 10 percent unemployment like we had during the early 1980s.

The reason for this is that most people are kind of in shock and only the most intelligent and creative people seem to be able to push through all this to create astounding success like Stephen Jobs, Stephen Wozniak and Bill Gates. So, I guess you could say this is a paradox that could be stated like this: "While most people are freaking out from difficulties the most exceptional people often use this time to become amazingly successful" There are periods like the 1930s, the 1940s, and during our most amazing recovery into untold wealth of the 1950s and 1960s when we became the richest most debt free nation on earth because everyone wound up owing us money around the world because we were kind of the last big nation relatively untouched by war. We were in the war but were not attacked in any major way here except for Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Because of this everyone borrowed money from the U.S. and then had to pay us back which made us the richest nation on earth during the 1950s and 1960s. Then the Viet Nam War bankrupted our nation but still we were okay because other nations were on their feet by then and loaned us money. That was the 1980s. Then 9-11 happened but this time the only nation left with enough money to loan was China, Russia and Japan so that is where most of our money was borrowed from.

The economic state of the world is actually much more serious long term now than in the 1930s and 1940s because of the fact that we are losing 1.3% of our tillable farmland worldwide every year to erosion and salinization and the fact that it takes 500 years to create 1 inch of topsoil in reality. So, either the world becomes much more efficient at growing food (80% of the food eaten is grains worldwide) or millions (likely about 10 million a year or more) will starve every year now from now on. This is something to think about if life gives you the time to because when many people starve it causes panic that moves up through the masses until the middle class and rich begin to make bad decisions as the panic touches them. So, in some ways what happens to one of us happens to all of us worldwide. So, whatever we can do to make our world more efficient and compassionate will help our world civilizations be cohesive and not break apart into warlord states without governments.