[palmotea]

> What if the base of the economy is well-paid power point rangers buying stuff? Because that’s what most of our economy is: consumer spending.

Those "well-paid power point rangers" can't be the base of the economy: properly understood, they're an exploitative/parasite class sitting more towards the top of the pyramid.

[whynotminot]

Are we talking about base in an architectural sense or base as in their spending actually does underpin most of the economy.

One of these is relevant to the conversation.