Government spending is plummeting! Taxes are rising! Businesses are failing! The workforce is shrinking!

Good.

The world economy produces as much garbage as useful stuff.

What businesses are collapsing? Twinky manufacturers. Blackberry, the manufacturer of the stupid smartphone. Banks run by gullible idiots whose mantra when talking to credit default swap salesmen is “If I don’t understand it, it must be right!”

What people are leaving the workforce? Drones who never figured out that there is nothing riskier than a steady job.

As the useless disappear, what happens next? The useful fill the vacuum.

But no, you say, it’s not that easy to fill the vacuum. There are too many regulatory hoops to jump through. Hah! All you need is a friendly legislative connection and you can jump over regulatory barriers like an Olympic hurdler. How do you get these connections? Just call your bribes “campaign contributions” and you’re in like Flynn.

And think about the expanding supply of fun people! Beautiful out-of-work secretaries who enter the hooker business. Out-of-work sanitation workers who become cage fighters. Despondent never-employed college graduates with degrees in Medieval Gender Studies who become new customers of drug dealers, thus boosting the inner city economy.

The possibilities are endless.