[disjointrevelry]

The article boils down to a basic fact: "The unexotic underclass are unexploitable." Despite all the dancing around this fact, it pops out in the article like a pimple on an ivy leaguing debutant's nose in their weekly dermotalogist face cleansing.

There is more than a hint of the populist a. randist philosophy throughout this article. Maybe this is a cult, and it goes without saying.

The privileged group (such as the author's) consider themselves hero's and the saints of today's countries, the ultimate problem solvers that defeat the overbearing complications of governments and regulation. The expectation of privilege versus the torrent of their own baser instincts that pervades their own reflection, is one even a clever author can not mask with the vanity of the wealthy with the needs of the exploited and poor.

Lets get straight to the point. The 'exotic' underclass are in resource rich regions. Investments into these 'entrepeneurs' is miniscule to the massive profits from the resources from the "emerging third-world countries".

The article is a complaint, that the unexotic underclass is unexploitable. Nothing much else is expected from the a group of sycophants whose main desire was to wheel and deal financial sludge on wall street.

[jrochkind1]

I think you are rough on the author -- the author doesn't know they're complaining that the underclass is unexploitable -- they actually believe that 'entrepeneurs' can help the 'underclass' by selling them the right products, if only they'd try harder.

The author diagnoses the disease, but their prescription, 'innovating' new things to sell to the underclass (whether in the first or third world) -- will never cure it.

[corford]

Don't normally do "pedant" posts but this is the second time I've seen it in this thread. The author is a she not a he :)

[jrochkind1]

thank you! Will correct in my post with gender neutral wording, which I should have used from the start.

[angersock]

The unexploitable is a sad, basic fact--our system is set up to move heaven and earth to facilitate the transfer of wealth out of people who've accumulated it.

If you have little or no wealth, hardcore free-market civilizations have little to offer you.

[sbierwagen]

Ayn Rand was hardly a populist, and Libertarianism is not a populist ideology.