The national “necessity” for exporting goods or importing income for services in order to limp a little less is simply another indicator that there is a chronic systemic scarcity of domestic individual incomes in every national economy. For some time now Germany and Japan have been able to exploit this in order to bring relative stability to their nations, but globalism is a race to the bottom and soon if not now the only way to maintain such a system will be to export to the moon or Mars. That is unless we supplement individual incomes and reduce prices with a macro-economic discount mechanism. A modern and efficient economy so freed from the slavery of monetary scarcity and the dominating self interests of monopolistic finance would undoubtedly have more employment than the quarter century of stagnation we’re currently heading for and much more general prosperity and leisure as well.