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Well, that proves my point even further, since they aren't being pragmatic and compromising. Rather than finding a way to integrate dissidents into the regime when possible, they are giving them more grievance.

That actually shows to me the value of pragmatism and compromise, that by bringing in elements of (a) different system(s) they have strengthened their country.

This is starting to sound like that one Doom fic. All that needs to happen, is for the ceiling to collapse, and then for him to transform into a communist zombie who wants to travel to the moon and paint it pink and draw a Lenin face on it. Anyways, by cartoon logic, if he is secretly a commie...

Well, also the people who produce the intellectual goods, entertainment goods, etc. They make things too. Though of course they rely on the farmers and industrialists too. I wonder, but would moving back to more artisan production be helpful in the current world? Take that farmer's market stalls...

America owes it soul to the international debtors?

I am pretty sure that normal human activity helps the economy. Isn't that the point of classical economics?

I am going to agree as well, it is all quite perverse. And it is an inversion of the natural order of things, the economy should serve man, man should not serve the economy.