WAKE UP. It is now time for the people, including the middle class as well as the poor, vulnerable and the downtrodden, to START PAYING FOR the Goldilocks Age of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer that the world has experienced since the worldwide financial collapse in 2008. The basic resources like nickel, copper, oil, cobalt, fertilizers, wheat etc. used in technology and building things and growing crops will only get scarce over time. America’s commercial, consumer, ‘buy, buy, buy’ culture uses 25% of the Earth’s resources but America only has 5% of the Earth’s population. The Earth’s current Ice Age is millions of years old and is in remission and the Earth will continue warming up no matter what the Earth’s inhabitants think they can do to change this.
Scarcity will rule the Earth, just as supply chains will continue to be challenged resulting in ‘supply shock’ as more and more people continue entering the middle class worldwide emulating and striving for USA-like prosperity; and inflation is here to stay due to higher wages, higher rents, higher interest rates, more productivity needed to meet supply and demand, as well as costlier security for all and few, if any, of these inflationary pressures ever subside once they are put in place.
And all the while the rich elitists are shameless like multi-millionaire, CNBC-TV stock market analyst, Jim Cramer, who owns a closet full of $3000 to $5000 suits. He brags about wearing suits all the time. Jim. Just two of your $5000 suits would feed a family of 8 in Brazil for a year. Have you no shame?
Ninety percent of America’s assets are held by the top 5% of the population. Fifty percent of everyone in America have no real assets. During the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020-2022 shareholders of corporate stock were enriched during the pandemic 50 times more than the working middle class and poor in America who were not shareholders of corporate stock. The poor, vulnerable and downtrodden always pays the price for America’s lawmaker policy mistakes and inequities. As many influential, Wall Street titans have noted, income inequality is unsustainable in America.
Middle class affluence and the urgency for tackling climate change in America in 2022 is now not important compared to having a safe and secure America and a free world with income equality. You will have to risk your life and your families’ lives, health and well-being to insure a safe, secure free world…as well as with any hope for ever reaching income equality.
In 2022 when the truckers ‘stopped rolling’ in Canada over government Covid-19 vaccine mandates, truckers neglected to take their grievances to the next level and demanding their ‘fair share’ of corporate profits. Workers too often always settle for some measly increase in wages which always ends up being eaten up by inflation and other household emergencies.
The radicals and revolutionaries assumed during the Canadian truckers’ blockade that truckers across America would unite and tell America’s corporations and the U.S. government that at a predetermined time on a specific day, if their grievances for a fair share of corporate profits were not met then every trucker driving every size truck imaginable, for any and all corporations and governments across America, truckers would simply pull over to a safe place, park, turn off their engines and ‘stop rolling’. This would ‘shut down’ America and world trade until all the truckers’ grievances were fulfilled.
The rich elites will not…cannot let a truckers’ revolt happen. No one eats, sells, builds or moves anything without America’s army of truck drivers. The poor, vulnerable and downtrodden ‘have nots’ can go a lot longer than the elites can go without eating and, in the meantime, the ‘have nots’ can find more ways to liberate food sources for themselves compared to the ‘fat cat’, rich and powerful elites who rely on the poor, vulnerable and downtrodden to supply and service the elites.
In the late 20th Century there were vague, fruitless attempts to organize and rage against the corporate machine and the U.S. government with attempts at anti-commercial, anti-consumer culture by trying to organize and expedite ‘Buy Nothing Days’. However, this was in the pre-internet days when it was harder to organize grass root level rebellions but, subsequently, the internet created the ability to organize everyone all-at-once.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ‘breakup’ of the Soviet Union (USSR) in the early 1990s, the USSR split up into many separate countries, like Ukraine. At that time the Ukraine held 30% of the Soviet Union’s silos containing ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads that could be aimed and hit the USA. U.S. President Clinton and the U.K.’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair, shrewdly persuaded the peace-seeking Ukraine government into destroying ALL their nuclear warheads with the promise that the USA and the United Kingdom would protect Ukraine from any aggressors, and that someday Ukraine could even possibly become a member of NATO.
In 2022, this promise was obviously broken when the free world allowed Russia to invade Ukraine. With the ‘breakup’ of the USSR in the 1990s, Russia elected Boris Yeltsin as President who then turned around and allowed his 100+ friends to get ‘filthy rich’ in Russia creating what today is known as the ‘Russian oligarchs’.
The oligarchs then ousted Yeltsin for being corrupt and replaced him with a relatively unknown security service, KGB agent, Vladimir Putin, who was subsequently made President Putin. Putin then invited all the oligarchs to Stalin’s home which still bore the bullet holes as a ‘grim reminder’ to the oligarchs of whatever nefarious activities had gone on inside Stalin’s home decades ago. Putin had only one message for the oligarchs. “You can keep all your riches but just don’t get in my way in how I rule Russia.” Subsequently, Putin has since ruled with an iron fist and ‘skimmed’ 70 billion dollars for himself from Putin’s own friends, the oligarchs, and Russia’s oil industry. Putin then converted his wealth into U.S. dollars to be held in Swiss bank accounts and elsewhere.
When Russia rolls in to try and take over any country, like Ukraine in 2022, the Ukraine population could spill their millions of men, women and children into the streets of every city in Ukraine and ‘dare’ Russian oil billionaire Putin’s Russian army to massacre their own Russian brothers and sisters in Ukraine for all the world to see instantly on the internet via social media.
Massacre your own people live via the internet on social media then watch Putin’s own Russian population rise-up and Putin’s army turn its weapons on Putin and Putin’s army generals. When this happens Putin’s own partisan border guards will not be able to protect him in his own country; just like the Chinese people will someday, sooner than later, overthrow the Chinese Communists all in the name of freedom, safety and security.
Like the measly 10% of the Americans willing to speak up and risk their lives to incite a rebellion against the British monarchy in America in the 1700s, Russian Bolsheviks, amounting to no more than 10% of the Russian population rebelled in 1917 fighting for the rights of the poor, the weak and downtrodden against the Russian aristocracy. Subsequently, the Russian military infantry was ordered by the aristocracy’s military generals, per the Russian aristocracy, to put down the Bolshevik rebellion by force. However, the infantry decided to fight for the downtrodden ‘have nots’ in their country, fighting instead for the poor, unwashed masses which happened to be their friends, neighbors and relatives, then the military infantry turned their guns on and ‘took out’ the Russian aristocracy and the aristocracy’s military generals subsequently leading to over 70 years of communist rule in the Soviet Union until 1991 when the USSR imploded.
Wake up America. Stop ‘rolling’ on a massive scale and rage against the machine to shut it down and the rich elite will succumb to the demands from the downtrodden in a matter of days or weeks, and others will follow you consequently walking off the job until you are paid your ‘fair share’ of corporate profits and not having to rely on being paid in ‘crumbs’ from measly wage increases that always gets eaten up by inflation and other emergencies.
When the ‘have nots’ finally get paid their ‘fair share’, with their newfound wealth they will eventually give to more relevant causes than the rich philanthropists do today. Instead of giving billions of dollars to undeserving institutions like Harvard University and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which today receives 100 times more in donations every year from rich philanthropists compared to donations made every year to local food banks to feed the poor, odds are today’s millennials and Generation Zs will donate many more dollars than what is being donated today by rich philanthropists to feed the poor, solve world hunger and save the planet.
Getting your ‘fair share’ will make you proud to work harder to help the corporation you work for profit and succeed because the more successful the corporation, the larger your ‘fair share’ will be every year you work for the corporation. It will also help take out the American aristocracy and philanthropists that you and your ancestors worked, and even died for, building America since the 1700s. Call this payback…reparations.
For those that do not WAKE UP and ‘come along’ and participate in the coming income equality revolution, and it WILL come, just tell them to go back to sleep…they are hopeless. It is not what your country can do for you, but what it is that you can do for your country.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: ANONYMOUS, INDEPENDENT, FREE THINKER FEBRUARY 2022