Who needed a car for this? Let's be honest. Is our future already predicted as those on the stage platform await to hand us our diplomas?  I think about this often, as the ones who molded our years at various schools and institutions stood before us as we sat in cap and gown.  They knew the future and how they wanted it to exist.  So they gathered like cells or I say biblical cells so that the future will be a function in its past state.

How do we know such a hidden ceremony takes place while one is currently going on?

People who present or speak at such events holds a position of either teacher,owner, spiritual leader, advisor, representative ect.It is with this molecule of selection that systemically creates a foundation or rather continues it "as it were", so to speak.

What's wrong with that, life has always operated by supply and demand?

True, but people are still being paid "as it were" salaries.  The demand for technology workers priced itself out of the market because production is based on the lesser cost it takes to get the job done.  So if it begins to cost too much our livelihoods are outsourced elsewhere. And we are then left with the struggle of living with less money on a cost of living that has yet to be greatly reduced or sacrificed to continue the demand for affordable living.

Where was that person who was supposed to be on the ceremonial stage that would in effect begin to continue prices of yesteryear in order for people to continue to live affordably?

That was the missing gene or recessive cell.  Apparently the other cells and or genes on stage were dominant ones. The recessive genes can only function during a recession because that it when they are really needed.  When the foundation is functional without a recession, cells and molecules work just fine; but as the foundation crumbles the recessive gene needs to adapt as it should show capable and acceptable ways to live despite the lack of money. If things can be made cheaper then- it will cost less to make, if they cost less to make then- they should also sell for less, when they sell for less- you will earn less to produce, if you earn less then because most of what you need to live is cheaper then you are now able to survive on that recessive gene alone.

Give me an example:

If you have a high cholesterol count in times where you may dominate economically a person will use a brand pharmaceutical medication to survive such a condition.  A generic form is made of that same medication and is used according to your economic situation.  Once that dominance deteoriates, you still have the condition of high cholesterol so how do you survive given the fact that you have even less money to spend and your dosage was increased because nutrition in food is also a bit pricey.  The naturals of the recessive gene will use fish oil, red rice yeast or other alternatives to combat the problem of affordability in order to survive such a condition because you still have to take care of the condition despite employment conditions. As you have to have food to eat, clothes to wear and a roof over your head along with heat and hot water ect.  These are all necessities that are needed despite times of dominance or recession.

What does this all have to do with reunions?

Simple, it placed many of us in the same boat or occassional raft.  It proved that paper is definately not waterproof but the value of the learned skill and education within that experience and survival beyond it is.  There is a saying: the calm before the storm. The recessive in this should provide a way to weather this out with dignity.  Me personally, I am in favior of e-reunions-the website where you can send messages and even video chat to other folks.  Why? because I was just going to wear what I usually have on when I'm going to pick up a few things from a local store- the recession does have it's advantages!