Hello Kiddies,
As we go about our daily lives do any of us take pause and really think about the conditions in which we live under? We wake up, prep for work, work, go home and relax "generally that's the daily routine, no"? Well this kind of reminds me of the days of old. What do I mean by this? Well not so long ago people entered into contracts with the wealthy to perform duties in exchange for transport, housing etc... In exchange for this they worked, day in and day out until the debt was paid in full.
How is this akin to life in modern society? Well upon being hired to a position you have guidelines you have to follow, very little if any say so as to your working conditions or upward mobility. Don't think that just because you work hard you'll make it to the top. That is actually a rarity, especially in this day in age. Now there are those few who do attain upward mobility and even fewer self made zillionaires but buy in large most of us are stuck in the middle. In exchange for our working we are paid, servants were not but they had all their basic needs met. Isn't that the same as your paycheck?
Once upon a time a single income could sustain the family, these days nearly the entire family has to work just to make ends meet, starting to sound a bit more like servitude, no? Thanks to Globalization, monetary manipulation and sheer greed, wages are actually decreasing as time moves forward. America is truly moving closer and closer to a Caste system of social order, this deeply saddens me as it's not the America I remember during my college years or perhaps I was just naive.
I believe that slowly, with the erosion of unions and the degradation nay decimation of the middle class we are slowly sinking into an abyss that it will be difficult to reverse without real harm to our country as a whole. If you look at a bell curve of wages overtime, just go back to the 1960's you will see that the curve in the center "adjusted for inflation" which represented the vast majority of us "middle class" is narrowing. There are more Uber wealthy and working poor now than in recent history. Something is gonna break, this road we are going down cannot be sustained or this great experiment known as "America" we have all been participating in is going to collapse in on itself, wait and see. Life as we know it now is unsustainable: finite resources, deteriorating quality of life, fiscal irresponsibility and unpredictable disasters natural or otherwise will be our undoing. These are the fact's write it off as BS if you want and pray to the technology Gods if you will but the only thing that's really going to save us is coming together as a nation and stop fucking each other out of equity for massive personal gains!
AMF...
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