Covid and online working will usher in the end of first world life standards

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There will effectively be no first world within the next few years as life standards will take a permanent nosedive.

The first blow came in the form of destruction of small business. Small enterprise, mom and pop shops and diners, these were the last sectors of the economy in which people enjoyed autonomy or a degree of freedom from corporation and state. The COVID scam and the resultant lockdowns have eliminated most small businesses. The gap will be filled by megacorporations who have have been lavished by bailouts by the Fed, greater favor from banks and deeper pockets.

Mom and pop diners are all gone, now only Mcdonals and Starcucks will remain, as they're the only ones capable of surviving this depression due to bailouts. There will be no more small enterprise, there will only be employees of megacorporations, which are effectively command economies, states within a state.

If that wasn't bad enough, the other blow will come from online work. While this seems good at first as it saves you commuting, high housing costs in the city and demoralizing office work, it will be disastrous in the long run.

Because online work can be outsouced to the entire planet. If you don't need workers to be physicallly present anymore, you can hire workers from anywhere in the planet. American white collar labor will effectively be in competition with the entire planet. Why pay some native born worker, 4000 bucks for graphics work, when you can pay an Indian or Chinese person 500 dollars for the same thing?

The higher prestige and income associated with white collar work will collapse in the following years. The average salary will be something equiavlent to today's 500 bucks a month. Of course due to effects of inflation, it might appeart to be greater in the future.

As for Blue collar work, mass immigration from mexico has already collapsed wages for them and increased automation and digitalization will shave their salaries to nothing as well.

As salaries plummet, so will life standards. The overall size of the economy will remain the same as the fruits of productivity all go to the corporate elites and BlackRock. Inequality in the US will go up to Mexico and Brazil levels.

Prices might decline a bit but that will probably be offset by resulting inflation from the continous QE. The US economy and stock market have become acclimated to QE, rock bottom interest rates and FED injections and can no longer function without it. If the FED ever stops QE or seriously increased rates, the market will collapse in a bout of panicked selling.

In the grim darkness of the coming digital serfdom, heading to the countryside and becoming a small farmer or craftsman of a self sufficeint commune increasingly sounds enticing. Though I doubt the globalist regime would allow something like that for long.

I expect increasing environmental regulations and carbon taxes to make it impossible for such ventures. Not to mention agricultural subsidies to big agriculture like ConAgra and Archer Daniels Midlands. They'll no doubt do their fullest to price out such ventures.

Things look darker and darker by the day

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[–]EinmuetigeErhebung 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah, it's pretty bad. That so many people who are anti-establishment (both on the right and on the left) have supported this insanity and even jumped onboard mask hysteria, is tragic, and shows us how strong the grip of the elites on public opinion is. If the lockdowns ever were a threat to the globalist system, they would never have happened, especially because COVID is not much worse than the flu.

On the contrary, the lockdowns have accelerated the transfer of power from the people and the nation-states to the billionaire class. Large private corporations couldn't be doing better right now, while the government looks more and more like a dying, indebted and dysfunctional entity, and the middle class loses the little economic independence that it still had. I'd say in the future the COVID panic is going to be seen as a major turning point. The good thing about this is that it's in such periods that social alienation grows and revolts tend to happen, so a window of opportunity for radical action is opening.

[–]WatchOutThere 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Let's just hope it's not the communists which lead a successful revolution.

[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The communists won't be doing jack shit outside of their own fantasys. Those retards larping out on the streets are all Globalist pawns. They would be squashed like a bug the moment they actually turned against the system. Antifa and BLM are allowed to riot ONLY with the permission of the Elite.

Even if they did somehow carry out a successful revolution (which is damn near impossible, given how incompetent they are), the communists would quickly be defeated from within by a Stalinist usurper. This is a feature of many revolutions: The group that originally seized power is overthrown and liquidated.

[–]antireddit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Masks arent the problem. They dont destroy the economy like lockdown measures, and tying masks to that issue is self defeating. Wearing one in enclosed spaces near others is just common sense, and aggressively opposing it just makes someone look like a dimwit, especially when the dimwit in question winds up contracting and dying from the thing.

[–]deAccount 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’m still in college (for database administration), but for all the reasons you’ve listed, I believe there’s a chance I’ll end up being a hobo one day. As a last resort, is there some type of pdf/document that teaches in-depth how to farm with no equipment? I don’t want to be unprepared like those idiots in “Chaz” a few months ago.

[–]meatball4u 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Schizopost.

[–]FriedrichLudwig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How? It's not incoherent.

[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, and the Elite knew all of this in advance when they went forward with the Plandemic. They knew that it would bring them one step closer to their goal of NeoFeudalism. They want a borderless, cultureless world of dirt poor peasants that they can rule over with impunity.

The only real cog in their plan is Donald Trump and the populist movement, but even if he wins the elections, he won't be able to stop them. At best, Trump may be able to undo some of the more obnoxious and harmful plans of the Elite (such as reparations for blacks, climate taxes, amnesty for illegals, etc).

The cancer of NeoLiberalism has progressed too far. All the healthy parts of our society have been killed off and replaced with cancer. Every facet of our lives have turned into cancer. It is all encompassing and inescapable. Television, movies, music, media, relationships, familys, employment. All have been corrupted.

The U.S. economy is in a zombie state. The various stimulus measures are nothing more than life support, keeping a dead system alive. Bailing out the Megacorporations at the expense of small and medium sized business' is immensely harmful. If Trump gets into power, then perhaps the kindest thing he can do is to crash the economy into the ground. It can't recover until it has truly hit rock bottom.