Good things that can happen as a result of the economic crisis.

Economic woes still have you down? Never fear dear reader,  for I have done the economic analysis and I can tell,  you may lose your 401k and savings and house and car and the clothes you are wearing now and before long you have to sell your teeth to a hobo.  But, there is a small chance that the economy may crash backwards!  This means that the people with the most money would be effected first.  This could be a good thing...  

A.       No more reality TV.

  In the great depression era, people tuned into the radio for some good old fashioned escapism,  they wanted to listen to stories that were fake, improbably and of course, not some poor sap working three jobs to buy salt to eat his rats that infested his house.   So if we have a crisis,  people are not going to want to tune in to the TV to watch some celebrity that has billions of dollars vote people out the mansion to find out who their best friend is.  Seriously, why on earth do we as a human race, waste resources on a TV show that is a contest to be someone’s best friend?   If you have to have a contest to see who likes you, chances are, you have no friend to begin with. 

So I am hoping that reality TV is the first item to be purged to make room for the economy, and more shows like Firefly, or even Gilmore Girls(yes this show had far to much drama for anyone to endure,  but the billions of pop culture references jam packed in ever line of dialogue was very interesting).  If I want to loose all brain functionality when I watched TV,  I would watch infomercials. 

 

B.      No more pop super stars.

When a 14 year old girl has a larger net worth then your entire home town, you cant help but think we are doing something wrong.   Year in and year out, we have some young blonde chick with a catchy tune that has a TV show and sells like 400 billion CDS to everyone.  They make more money then you can shake a stick at.  Why?  Because people need the new shiny stuff for some off reason.  When the economy goes sour, people will think twice before buying a 21 dollar CD that has stuff the can hear on the radio for free.  The last CD I bought was Funker Vogt’s ‘Aviator’.  That was last year.  Its still rocks.

C.       No more Hummers

I my self drive a mid-sized urban SUV.  It Is a Mitsubishi Outlander. The gas mileage is pretty lame,  but I get piece of mind that when my wife is driving it somewhere, she can stop on a dime and maneuver  through many situations safely.  But hummers have moved my car into the ‘honda hatchback class’ of cars with their gianormous stature and 10 MPG.  It is proven that Hummers are actual less then safe then the average SUV and less durable.  Less cheap too.  Funny how that works.

D.      Less NASCAR

I love motorsports, a lot.  I used to do a picture post call ‘Forza Race Weekend’ Of my adventures in Forza 2.  But NASCAR is a very boring motorsport.  All the cars are the same.  All the tracks are just about the same.   Its has become so popular that there are numerous online race leagues for it. 

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With the economy going down, and gas value going up, I Don’t see NASCAR lasting long.  So when the videogame version replaces the real live version, here is the fastest way to get around 99% of all the nascar tracks.

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E.       Hollywood Knock-Offs.

When big movie studios feel the crunch, what about the small time studios?  This crisis will only prevent Transmorphers 2 and Alien v Hunter 2.