Greetings good citizen, Happy Friday! Not that Friday means what it used to in our 24/7, shop til you drop economy...and most of us, if we have a job, it's retail where the weekends have become meaningless...or worse, if you don't own the dump, you're scheduled to work.
If you're unemployed then the weeks are nothing but a perpetual weekend. It's always Friday/Saturday but you have nothing to do because you don't have the money. Nice day, cloudy and cold, doesn't matter today is going to be the same as yesterday...and the same as tomorrow (until YOU make yourself USEFUL to somebody...a task that gets more difficult with each passing day.
Our Futurist forebearers completely missed this one, even those who believed robots would do EVERYTHING for us. What nobody saw coming [back in the Whiz-bang days] was the collapse of capitalism...which is weird because without the 'gun' money provides capitalism failed everytime it was attempted.
Ironically, the equation is falling apart from the 'other end'. We now have the ample supply of 'captive customers' that capitalism requires but the captives don't have the necessary income to keep a 'for profit' business model afloat.
Worse, the ones keeping the 'market dominance' aspect of capitalism alive don't themselves need the money.
Can anyone else see a problem here?
Naturally we need to revisit history if we are to understand how we came to be in such, er, 'straits'.
Buying and selling is a reasonably recent...'innovation'. Before modern times, buying and selling was something only owners did...the rest of us, pathetically, were 'owned'. For some this meant a bill of sale with our name on it and for the rest it was our 'mark' upon a contract providing us with 'permission' to farm a specific plot of land and surrender most of what we grew in exchange for being able to keep (hopefully) enough to survive on during the winter months.
And make no mistake about it, a 'bad year' on the plot didn't mean you were cut slack by the landowner, it meant the portion you got to keep shriveled to nothing.
Yes, this was life before the 'Every MAN an owner' brand of capitalism was established. How ironic capitalism fizzled out when it was tried experimentally with 'subsistence farmers'...because, as you know, EVERYBODY planted what sold well the year before, making for shortages in almost every commodity except one, which you now had in spades.
This is a 'flaw' in capitalism that educators fail(ed)[they're still doing it so both ways please!] to point out to non-agrarian students. The kids of factory workers didn't need to know what the 'bad old days were like' and telling them would only make them wonder what kind of people were in charge of things...
Thus we circle back to 'anger'. Why is everybody so angry?
While the 'angry' thing is what you see on TV, most of the rest of us are totally 'befuddled'. We have no clue where the money is going to come from to pay for all the crap that keeps getting dropped in our laps by our 'You're on your own' government.
Worse, everytime you switch the TV on it promptly spews a new threat to either your health or your security. [Understand, most of these threats are remote to say the least but it still distracts you and irritates that little nub inside your mind that says 'why doesn't the government do something about it?']
That little nub, good citizen is almost rubbed flat in the voracious consumer of TV..an audience that continues to increase as unemployment continues to climb, thanks to 'government instituted globalization' brought to you by the conservatives that somehow, miraculously keep getting elected.
Isn't THAT what's making you angry, good citizen?
Why do all the 'stupid people' [and admit it, in your mind you're surrounded by IDIOTS!]keep voting against their own interests?
Well, it starts with Rush Limbaugh (and friends) convincing everyone who would listen that all LIBERALS we in fact card carrying communists bent on giving away everything you worked so hard for to the 'mud people'.
Guess who the mud people are? If you think it's the illegal immigrants who put food on your table for less than minimum wage you're WRONG! The 'mud people' are, in fact, the unemployed listeners of conservative psycho babble like the Rush Limbaugh Show!
And remember, Mud spelled backwards equals Dum!
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that the future is ALWAYS rooted in the past, WHAT WAS SHAPES WHAT WILL BE!
Live and LEARN, good citizen!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
If you're unemployed then the weeks are nothing but a perpetual weekend. It's always Friday/Saturday but you have nothing to do because you don't have the money. Nice day, cloudy and cold, doesn't matter today is going to be the same as yesterday...and the same as tomorrow (until YOU make yourself USEFUL to somebody...a task that gets more difficult with each passing day.
Our Futurist forebearers completely missed this one, even those who believed robots would do EVERYTHING for us. What nobody saw coming [back in the Whiz-bang days] was the collapse of capitalism...which is weird because without the 'gun' money provides capitalism failed everytime it was attempted.
Ironically, the equation is falling apart from the 'other end'. We now have the ample supply of 'captive customers' that capitalism requires but the captives don't have the necessary income to keep a 'for profit' business model afloat.
Worse, the ones keeping the 'market dominance' aspect of capitalism alive don't themselves need the money.
Can anyone else see a problem here?
Naturally we need to revisit history if we are to understand how we came to be in such, er, 'straits'.
Buying and selling is a reasonably recent...'innovation'. Before modern times, buying and selling was something only owners did...the rest of us, pathetically, were 'owned'. For some this meant a bill of sale with our name on it and for the rest it was our 'mark' upon a contract providing us with 'permission' to farm a specific plot of land and surrender most of what we grew in exchange for being able to keep (hopefully) enough to survive on during the winter months.
And make no mistake about it, a 'bad year' on the plot didn't mean you were cut slack by the landowner, it meant the portion you got to keep shriveled to nothing.
Yes, this was life before the 'Every MAN an owner' brand of capitalism was established. How ironic capitalism fizzled out when it was tried experimentally with 'subsistence farmers'...because, as you know, EVERYBODY planted what sold well the year before, making for shortages in almost every commodity except one, which you now had in spades.
This is a 'flaw' in capitalism that educators fail(ed)[they're still doing it so both ways please!] to point out to non-agrarian students. The kids of factory workers didn't need to know what the 'bad old days were like' and telling them would only make them wonder what kind of people were in charge of things...
Thus we circle back to 'anger'. Why is everybody so angry?
While the 'angry' thing is what you see on TV, most of the rest of us are totally 'befuddled'. We have no clue where the money is going to come from to pay for all the crap that keeps getting dropped in our laps by our 'You're on your own' government.
Worse, everytime you switch the TV on it promptly spews a new threat to either your health or your security. [Understand, most of these threats are remote to say the least but it still distracts you and irritates that little nub inside your mind that says 'why doesn't the government do something about it?']
That little nub, good citizen is almost rubbed flat in the voracious consumer of TV..an audience that continues to increase as unemployment continues to climb, thanks to 'government instituted globalization' brought to you by the conservatives that somehow, miraculously keep getting elected.
Isn't THAT what's making you angry, good citizen?
Why do all the 'stupid people' [and admit it, in your mind you're surrounded by IDIOTS!]keep voting against their own interests?
Well, it starts with Rush Limbaugh (and friends) convincing everyone who would listen that all LIBERALS we in fact card carrying communists bent on giving away everything you worked so hard for to the 'mud people'.
Guess who the mud people are? If you think it's the illegal immigrants who put food on your table for less than minimum wage you're WRONG! The 'mud people' are, in fact, the unemployed listeners of conservative psycho babble like the Rush Limbaugh Show!
And remember, Mud spelled backwards equals Dum!
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that the future is ALWAYS rooted in the past, WHAT WAS SHAPES WHAT WILL BE!
Live and LEARN, good citizen!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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