The era of workers being well-off is receding behind us. From here it’s only going to get worse for America; and when we’re tapped out, it’ll become worse for India, China and the rest of the world. As such, I feel there should be a revolution. But a revolution in America is not enough. A global revolution is not even enough. It is quite far from enough.
The problem is that society is addicted to social Darwinism - exploiting the working class, working them to death for the cheapest wages possible, while discarding those who get “broken”, and ultimately, blaming the poor for their misfortunes. This is already happening. We’re headed into a global Dark Age where the billionaires will own everything and everyone else will be in extreme poverty.
Of course, you don’t believe that. Primarily you don’t believe it because TVs and iPods will be cheaper as time goes on. However, we’ve passed Peak Oil; meaning that energy prices will be going up from here on, because corporations will do everything in their power to keep solar power too expensive to replace fossil fuels. Dental care will be unobtainable for the working class (well, it already is now), along with health care (which is rapidly being priced out of the range of the working class), and rising food prices in America will evolve into shortages. (We are right now in clear and present danger of another Dust Bowl.) You’ll have an entire nation full of workers that have no medical insurance and no pensions, and wild swings in the stock market because masses of people will be making daily hardship 401K withdrawals to pay for transportation, medical bills, and to make basic ends meet. This is already all happening, to a lesser degree than what will come in the future.
Social Security will find a way to disappear along with Medicare, and the benefits of growth will be restricted to the rich. Oh wait, that’s already the case. Sillyme!
Obviously you are going to say I am crazy - but before you reach for your keyboard to write that, consider Mexico. That’s the future of the world.
So we need more than a revolution. We need a total global economic collapse.
A total collapse is tantamount to a global societal fatal overdose of social Darwinism, from which the survivors will emerge with a hangover so brutal that they will desperately want not to go through that again. Many will be inspired to re-think Capitalism in favor of a new system. Perhaps it’ll result in a system that eschews the idea of profits over people. Perhaps people will realize that unrestricted free trade is like putting a buncha kids on an island with no laws… and that the world cannot function like that.
Yes, I know I went over a LOT of heads with this…