Secure
in the belief that one’s offspring could always find a place in the vibrant American
workforce, my generation simply went out and had kids. Plenty of kids. All the little ones we wanted, and then some
in a few cases that your Post staff won't get into here. And so did our immediate
parentage and progeny. For the most
part, the entire capitalist bloodline serving the great American Greenback was
able to depend on the healthiest job market in history to give everyone in the
clan a living wage, if he/she wanted one.
Mournfully,
this is no longer so.
At
this moment in time, personal success/failure is so closely tied to capital/nepotism
that it’s become scary to think of bringing a child/victim into this career-killing
new world of egregious financial racketeering, pervasive automation, corporate treason (see the outsourced
American Dream, for starters), and sweeping political corruption. CEO’s and them, otherwise known as the 1%, are
acting on an ever-dwindling need for the rest of humanity, and AI (artificial
intelligence) appears on the verge of displacing most of the 99% from any
participation at all in the economic lives of the rich and factious. Unless you’ve got a family-owned enterprise
of some kind, are wired into others who do, or have stashed away enough
wherewithal to financially empower the heirs as they reach adulthood, for you
and yours the American landscape looms ignominiously bleak, likely to ensnare
the overwhelming proportion of its peoples into a wretched tragedy of
Dickensian proportions.
We
predict that the 1% will retain what will someday be called the 20% as hand
servants and courtesans, leaving no need for the remaining 79%, who will be
left to rot and perish in an inner city ruled by drug lords freed from
incarceration by this lawless President and stockpiled with the only civilian handguns in the whole hope
and change country. Meanwhile, all the little robots will be producing so many goods and services for the 1% and the robots, and so efficiently too, the stock market will shoot up higher and higher, handsomely rewarding the stock option crowd with unimaginable wealth from your fleeced company shares.
Remember,
CEO’s and them aren’t just picking at your family savings when they skim small
sums of your shares into their pockets through “stock options” every year. The thieving lowlife sleazebags are grabbing
your entire starting capital over time - AND PLOTTING YOUR EVENTUAL DEMISE.
Across the years, as the forces financed by CEO payoffs drive the size of our labor force down
to global depression levels and beyond, way beyond, the minimum wage seems
likely to transition into something more like the National wage, and the opportunity to even earn that will diminish steadily. Parents who do not preplan their children’s
financial future are throwing babies into an already harsh cruelty that can only
get worse as hope and change marches on.
And
some day soon grandparents who only provided for themselves over their
lifetimes will be looked upon as letting the rest of the family down.
So
enjoy your grandkids while you can, subscribers. Blatant Umama and his ilk will have them
turning on you before this is all done.
