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Let nature take its course

The son did go out to take a look later that very afternoon – and saw with his own eyes: All the young wheat was withered and dying!

More haste, less speed. Got to let nature take its course, however slow a process that may be.

Alright, here are present-day examples of situations where people wonder whether they should let nature take its course:

1. For the past 30 years, the “Grand Bargain” on the economy that everyone seems to be talking about today consisted of America’s plutocrats telling America’s workers that in exchange for keeping wage growth virtually flat workers would be given outstanding terms on credit. That way, said the plutocrats, everyone wins: The workers would be able to maintain their standard of living and “purchasing power”; investors would get bigger returns on capital thanks to suppressed labor costs; and a US domestic economy based overwhelmingly on consumption would get to keep its consumers willing to shop ’til they dropped -- even if the reason for their collapse was the weight of all that accumulated household debt the New American Economy was urging consumers to lug around.

And now that the music has stopped and it’s time to pay the piper, the airwaves are thick with calls for “shared sacrifice” emanating from the very same oligarchs and “austerity hawks” who got us into this mess in the first place.