Bro, we get it you’re the one with the special knowledge, the visionary insight, the original thought, and, above all, the immunity to brainwashing. But as far as I can tell, you haven’t presented a single solution to back any of that up.
We are in for some interesting times. For the first time in 30 years, I don't really know what it the correct path. I think all roads lead to many people becoming very poor.
The last time we faced this problem, they tore down the institutions that were concentrating all the wealth in the Robber Barons coffers. But part of that solutions was made possible by the increase in productivity made possible by the industrial revolution giving individual worker productivity gains. Those gains were available to be distributed to the workers.
We are at the end of that era. Return on investment is being horded in ever increasingly fewer hands. The billionaires control the entire planet, in my life time the middle class controlled country. They certainly control the messaging.
Here's a couple of questions: How are we going to benefit from a reduction in the Federal work force? The simple answer is that we could reduce the budget deficit. The problem is that the world economy is running on this debt. At least partially. So ultimately the economy will shrink. Do we talk about this? Not really, we talk about everything else but that. Why? I think because we are brainwashed to focus on these social issues so we end up taking our eye off the ball. So maybe that is one solution I offer. Get our eye back on the ball.
We seem to celebrate the creation of new billionaires and rejoice when they make an extra 100 billion in a year. A hundred billion, which by the way, is not taxable because it is unrealized wealth. Unrealized wealth that can be used to borrow real money that can then be paid off using unrealized wealth. Doesn't that seem like a bigger problem than boys becoming girls, or some other such irrelevant issue?
My generation was the wealthiest in history. That is a sad testimony if we remain the wealthiest in history.
I guess my prediction is this. Since the emergence of the great city states and empires around the world several thousand years ago, poor workers were needed to create the food, the ships and all the rest of the needs of the economy. Those people were allowed to live because the capitalist could not exist without them.
That dynamic changed during the industrial revolution. Why will the poor people be allowed to live in a world were they produce nothing? We have been moving towards the end of labor value to a world where investment without creating jobs is creating a class of people with unprecedented wealth and power. It's not all bad, a hundred years after the big die off, the remaining humans will have beautiful homes, big yachts, and virtual immortality. Pretty good deal if you survive the transition.
Question 2: Who in congress is going to vote for laws and regulations that will limit the destruction that is surely going to be an unanticipated consequence of removing the power from regulatory agencies? I said unanticipated, instead of unintended consequences, because they are definitely intended, they are just not anticipated by the brainwashed masses.
Why are the Republicans not saying we should increase the taxes on the ultra rich? And, why are the Dems not talking about increasing the quality of life for all working people? Because their master tell them not to.
Have you ever wondered why so many Conservative hate Buffet and Gates? Hint, they both advocate increasing taxes on the ultra rich.
