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The Servant Economy: Where America's Elite is Sending the Middle Class
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  • Middle class/blue collar Americans understand these things in their bones. There's is deep anger and resentment over the destruction of opportunity and a way of life. Unfortunately these resentments have been channeled by folks like Donald Trump and previous incarnations to pit Americans against one another. Middle class whites are now convinced that the source of their misery is Mexicans, Muslims, and other minorities. The Three M's of the American Apocalypse. "Make American Great Again!" Scoundrel Oligarchs such as Hillary Clinton also ply these waters of discontent, perhaps even more cynically, with feints to BLM and faux threats to Exxon and JP Morgan but purely for political and to cement her progeny in wealth and power for generations to come. A member of the LA Crips said something to me once that seems fitting: "Death to them all!"

  • Middle class whites are now convinced that the source of their misery is Mexicans, Muslims, and other minorities. The Three M's of the American Apocalypse.

    Well, usual stuff. Capitalists always show you someone who is responsible for this shit. Just not them.

    "Death to them all!"

    I'll surprise you. If you somehow (in fantasy) kill all oligarchs and big corporations new ones will appear almost instantly, from small and middle businesses. Surprise.

  • Once you give power to a small group of people, it's difficult to take it away. In America education has become prohibitively expensive. Only rich people can get educated now. Oh isn't that convenient? They're even pushing the idea that perhaps not everyone should dream of college but it's done under the guise of compassion and pragmatism. The elites of America don't want citizens, they want slaves. Why outsource to China when we can grow our own servant class?

  • Once you give power to a small group of people, it's difficult to take it away

    Do not know that this mean, but I think it means that you believe that small group rule and force their vision and wishes to everyone.

    It is wrong idealistic view. Elites always express interests of ruling class, and if they don't - it ends bad for them (or for ruling class, as in this case they start to represent opposite or new class).

    Only rich people can get educated now.

    It was always same during slavery, feudalism and capitalism.

    The elites of America don't want citizens, they want slaves. Why outsource to China when we can grow our own servant class?

    Not elites, any capitalists. Even small ones.

  • -it's a very simple obvious point. People trend toward selfishness and aggregating power. It's the job of the state to provide some type of redistribution that's tolerable and not punitive. Of course the very word "redistribution" in the USA has an equivalency now of the word Nazi or Satan. Taxes now mean "Giving free stuff to parasites and brown people". -Actually for decades america's great public universities were free. Not any more.

  • It's the job of the state to provide some type of redistribution that's tolerable and not punitive. Of course the very word "redistribution" in the USA has an equivalency now of the word Nazi or Satan.

    State do not make any fair "redistribution". State is complex machine made and run by ruling class. Sometimes capitalists can throw you a bone, if it is good for them. But only if it is good for them, not for other reason :-)

  • I think you don't like capitalism ;) I still think it has a future provided the middle class is kept large, robust and educated and that the state adequately manages the market to prevent excessive wealth concentrations among individuals and corporations. btw, I don't buy the mainstream idea that socialism is a failed experiment.

  • I think you don't like capitalism ;)

    Small surprise, even each capitalist individually don't like capitalism. :-)

    I still think it has a future provided the middle class is kept large

    Middle class is just mythical creature made for media.

    that the state adequately manages the market to prevent excessive wealth concentrations among individuals and corporations

    Let me rephrase this "that the alpha lion adequately manages the feast to prevent excessive murders among zebras and make it just enough that all lions and wolves won't be hungry (with some slack, of course)" :-)

    In other words - you can not ask collective capitalist to act in the interest of oppressed class. Only time they do it is if they have real danger, so they throw a bone or two. And tell usual fairy tale about zebras being middle class, so they won't worry too much. Murders must be human, you know, civilized. Plus as scientist showed stress hormones make meat not delicious.

  • And most people do not understand this basic idea I talk here (and communists show for very long time)

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    62% ask gang leaders to put some restrains to their best performing members. Well.
    Sounds strange, isn't it?
    Happens only due to lie in media and education during capitalism to prevent forming of proper model of world around you.

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  • When adjusted for inflation, wages for investment bankers and securities-industry employees, including salary and bonuses, increased 117 percent from 1990 through 2014, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Over the same period, wages for all other industries rose 21 percent, to $51,029 in 2014, about one-fifth of the $264,357 that bankers and brokers earned that year.

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  • We call that the Reagan revolution.

    62% ask gang leaders to put some restrains to their best performing members.

    Depends what you mean by best performing. you mean has the most profits? Some are the most profitable get that way not by doing anything useful but by manipulating laws and governments and destroying environments and life.

  • Depends what you mean by best performing. you mean has the most profits? Some are the most profitable get that way not by doing anything useful but by manipulating laws and governments and destroying environments and life.

    Best capitalist is one who has his capital rising faster than competition.

  • Journal of the American Medical Association data for US.

    Average life expectancy difference for 1% richest and 1% poorest citizens is around 10.1 years for females and 14.6 years for males. Top 1% males live 87.3 year and females 88.9 years, poorest live 72,7 for males and 78.8 for females.

  • That's a good statistic. Would be interesting to see that for all countries (top 1% vs bottom 1%).

  • I believe some of that is duebto increased drug abuse and obesity.

  • I believe some of that is duebto increased drug abuse and obesity.

    You mean that poorest 1% eat to much and have money for regular drugs?
    Or they are just some defective people who became so poor due two such things?

  • Well, many of the poorest eat cheap industrialized junk food and have less access to information on healthy nutrition. You can observe in quite a few countries – apart from those who are very poor as a whole country – that the rich are leaner these days.

  • You mean that poorest 1% eat to much and have money for regular drugs? Or they are just some defective people who became so poor due two such things?

    Poor people aren't given much of a chance. Poor schools, poor access to medical care, negative feedback loops over generations and punitive capitalist based criminal justice system produce a population that will consistently make poor choices with regards to diet, and lifestyle. And the band plays on.

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  • Damn! As a member of America's elite (in good standing, mind you), I'm distraught that our secret and nefarious plan to destroy the middle class is now public! What to do??

  • What to do??

    Find rope may be?