is there a problem where you live?There may not be the fast money around anymore, but there is still plenty of action where I live.
50% of the employable people work for a government or their agencies.
30% for life sustaining enterprises like food/water/transportation, 5% don't work at all,that leaves 15% of the working population at the peril of the mismanagent of the economy.
Since it is seldom that more than 20% of them would be laid off,it stands to reason that 3% will carry the brunt of a depression.
Let's start cutting costs by putting a ceiling on executive pay starting on top of the payscale and things will even out again.
At the other hand, the central banks can keep printing money, the executives and big brass get a bigger pay, the swindlers and other folk can press for higher profit, the unions and organized workers can strike for higher pay... and the pensioners who can't do either, they can die... and every one can live happily thereafter.