This bad economic situation for a majority of world citizens is only
going to get worse with Corporate exploit cheap poor country labor trade
deals like TPP and the ongoing advent/march of new tech that will
displace millions of workers in the very near future. The whole
unhealthy-unnatural, growth by any means necessary capitalistic system
will eventually collapse and in the long term health of the planet and
all creatures and living things by proxy - that is a good thing. Though
the immediate future will continue to be a struggle and there will be
upheaval as we already see starting. The multi-national corporate
execs/powers that be including their puppets in congress and the mass
media they control will pit us against each other on superficial and
unrealistic old fears aka Machiavelli 101. Or we could embrace this
eventuality and see it as an opportunity to completely change how we do
business and treat each other. There will more and more down time -
which can be really bad especially for men who in secular recent history
get their sense of self from working and staying busy trying to provide
for family and in more recent history women now carry this burden -
even more so than men with 60% divorce rate and women mostly raising our
children. Thus we can take this down time and make the best of it - by
trying to better ourselves by learning about how to be more self
sufficient - growing basic food stuffs and spinning our own cloth like
Gandhi did later in life - installing solar panels etc. And we go to our
great libraries and soak up all the knowledge from thousands of years
of human existence. Or we can continue down the doomsday escapism path
we are on and keep up with the Kardashians, play pokeman, scroll for
hours, TV, video games, drugs, sports, porno, shopping etc. and it will
all fall apart and we will all be in a very bad and unprepared state to
deal with it - thus ugly chaos and war. The tiping point is here and the
choice is ours. Prepare for the storm or deal with the consequences of
non-action. Unfortunately America's history tells us that we will ignore
reality until the sh*t hits the fan - but it will be too late by then.
God Bless this huge man made mess.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/14/486046635/feeling-squeezed-many-others-wedged-into-the-same-tight-economic-spot
