I don't pretend to have the panacea or answer to our nation's future socio-economic ails. I think that will be up to those future people to decide, that being said, I think there are inherent flaws in our current system and institutions and I don't have a problem pointing them out. Yes I think it's possible that the entire mortgage industry could become obsolete, just as it's possible the entire health insurance industry could eventually become obsolete.

I don't hear people crying about all the merchant vessel jobs lost during the world's shift from mercantilism to capitalism and the industrial revolution.

maybe because those merchant vessel employees found work elsewhere?

perhaps in the real estate industry

Merchant vessels are obsolete?

In the mercantilist sense I am pretty sure. But leave it to a follower of conservative demagogues to take things out of context. As if it was some kind if "GOTCHA" redoubt.

yeah, lol thrax. they all all underwriting mortgages now.

It's hard to take him seriously...

"I don't hear people crying about all the merchant vessel jobs lost during the world's shift from mercantilism to capitalism and the industrial revolution."

aren't these people dead?

and in 100 years if the mortgage industry disappeared anyone who worked in it would be dead too, what's your point?

you were speaking in the present.