What’s interesting from a societal perspective is that the comfort arrangement works excellently as a mechanism of political control…. but the elites are unraveling it via rapacious greed. Historically, it’s a novel and recent idea: a big, satiated middle class will work the engine of labor without complaint… so long as they can afford pleasure and shiny things in their off-time. But now, the elites cannot even control themselves to cede a sliver of their unusable wealth (they literally cannot spend 75% of it) to placate the masses. This article is a good exhortation to consciously seize back your own sovereignty, but a lot of people are going to have no choice soon OR…. we’ll end up with a bunch of types who lash out (we are arguably already at the latter).
This is an excellent eye opener to seeing the reality of what is happening. The status quo is such a strong deterrent to both seeing reality and desiring any change. Those of us who benefit from the status quo have not been listening to all the voices warning us of inequality and injustice. DJ rightly noted that the elites have lost their desire to throw a few breadcrumbs to the masses. Perhaps we are waking up to the fact that we are no longer benefitting from the status quo. It might be a good time to work towards transformation.
What’s interesting from a societal perspective is that the comfort arrangement works excellently as a mechanism of political control…. but the elites are unraveling it via rapacious greed. Historically, it’s a novel and recent idea: a big, satiated middle class will work the engine of labor without complaint… so long as they can afford pleasure and shiny things in their off-time. But now, the elites cannot even control themselves to cede a sliver of their unusable wealth (they literally cannot spend 75% of it) to placate the masses. This article is a good exhortation to consciously seize back your own sovereignty, but a lot of people are going to have no choice soon OR…. we’ll end up with a bunch of types who lash out (we are arguably already at the latter).
This is an excellent eye opener to seeing the reality of what is happening. The status quo is such a strong deterrent to both seeing reality and desiring any change. Those of us who benefit from the status quo have not been listening to all the voices warning us of inequality and injustice. DJ rightly noted that the elites have lost their desire to throw a few breadcrumbs to the masses. Perhaps we are waking up to the fact that we are no longer benefitting from the status quo. It might be a good time to work towards transformation.