THE WESTERN ESTABLISHMENT IS YOUR ENEMY

If you live in the western world you are being conditioned to believe your enemies are in Russia and China. This is a lie. Your enemies are much closer to home. In fact your primary enemy is the elite that runs your country and corporations.

Over the course of the last several decades while people power may appear to have risen in certain parts of the world. The so-called 'Arab Spring’ is an example of this along with the coup in Ukraine and the prospective mass movements to gain power seen in other western elite regime change targets.

However,the facts are that the wealthy and powerful 1% in the West have been the ones who have gained over these years and in exponential terms and the losers have been very much the 99%, the rest.

If you have sufficient years you will recall the Thatcher years in Britain and the Reagan years in the USA. These were the years when, in the name of ‘efficiencies’ and 'competition’ money began to by siphoned upward though various means such as eliminating staff costs which was accomplished by diminishing the bargaining power of unions, offshoring jobs and in general cutting work forces and holding down pay while demanding ever-greater efficiency and productivity from workers. Then came the gig economy where costs could be kept down due to those unemployed finding work harder and harder to come by therefore being forced to accept conditions that raised profits for companies while diminishing staff costs.

If you have been part of the work force in the UK or USA at any time since the Reagan-Thatcher years, unless you have been in a very high-flying position you will have experienced greater and greater levels of stress while your job security and satisfaction has shrunk. You will have been manipulated into working harder for longer and kept in line by stricter and stricter management that if it ever was, was now no longer your friend. You became a target for replacement if a cheaper option could be found. Of course if your expertise was a rare resource with few in the market place that could do your job as well as you then you may well have felt reasonably safe from redundancy or excessive management pressure.

Even those rare specialists however are going to find their expertise eroded in future. A.I. is going to swallow many of their jobs too.

But let’s talk of those further down the career ladder in respect of job security for they are the vast majority of people holding on to middling to lower positions.

The western world is now being hit by a double whammy. The movement to squeeze every last cent out of everybody has been ongoing for decades now even as payment for elite positions has soared. Megacorps such as Amazon have also now risen in recent times where virtual slave labor is called for and this at least has provided certain low-level jobs. But for how long. How many believe that A.I.-based automation won’t whittle these down to virtually nothing over the next ten years? Amazon warehouses are already automated to a degree. Do you really think they will remain as they are when the cost of employing humans is so much greater and more trouble in myriad ways than machines that can work without sick or holiday pay twenty four hours a day 365 days a year with no personnel records to keep or personnel staff needed to deal with advertising jobs, placing ads, conducting interviews, etc. etc. etc?

And now we have the pandemic. A recent statistic showed that 52% of large U.S. corporations increased their profit margins by significant amounts during this pandemic when compared to the year before. What do you think they are going to do with that extra income? Invest in jobs for humans or figure out ways to eliminate humans susceptible to illness? And this just as A.I. begins to rise as the next wave of hyper-automated service opportunities.

The super-rich have become hyper-rich in recent times. Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Washington Post is now the richest man in the world by far. But he is not alone. The moguls of social media are not far behind. And they are being asked collectively to arrange multiple platforms to deliver online health, education and multiple other services that can be delivered without human intervention.

Authors over the last decade or two have been warning that if jobs can be converted to zeros and ones they will in due course be digitized. It has been estimated that 20 million jobs could go by 2030. (See Below.)

•     37% of workers are worried about losing their jobs due to automation.

•     The number of industrial robot jobs increases by 14% each year.

•     More than 70% of people are willing to augment their brains and bodies in order to improve their employment prospects.

•     Three industries facing the highest risk of automation are transportation, storage, and    manufacturing.

•     By 2022, the total task hours completed by humans will drop by 13%.

•     Robots could displace 20 million manufacturing jobs by 2030.

•     Generation Z is at the highest risk of being displaced due to automation.

(Source: https://fortunly.com/statistics/automation-job-loss-statistics)

Do you see any sign that the elites within the capitalist UK or hyper-capitalist USA are interested in the social welfare of those it will increasing exclude from gainful employment?

Do you see any sign that the wholesale approval of the free market capitalist mentality is in any danger of modification when both the Tory Party and Corbyn-excluded Labour Party in the UK and the Republicans and Democrats in the USA both agree on the benefit of free-market capitalism as the ONLY way forward?

The elites of both nations are doing just fine while the vast majority are increasingly disenfranchised, with less life chances than ever, greater stress levels and in danger of losing access to affordable health care. Yes, the UK still has the National Health Service but the number of well-heeled managers has soared since Thatcher and the pressure to privatize this, that and the next service has been ongoing since then too. In the U.S. bankruptcies are soaring while millions lose their jobs along with their health insurance.

While stock markets soar.

Is there something wrong with this picture?

I repeat: If you live in the western world you are being conditioned to believe your enemies are in Russia and China. This is a lie. Your enemies are much closer to home. In fact your primary enemy is the elite that runs your country.

The established elites are your enemy.

Accept no lies they tell you hoping you’ll look elsewhere. 

 Focus on your TRUE enemy, right there at home...