| Each fall of civilization is a tale of N cities... there’s rarely “the one magic” factor. US has: - situations leadership cannot (ie no immediate benefit for them) or will not (ie blind tradition) correct the rules of the current system in a way founders, whom understood human-nature, could adjust to make it work better.. instead the ship is falling apart: - essentially unlimited private campaign financing.. resulting in corruption metastasizing into all three branches, from POTUS down to sheriff and district attorneys, which leads elected officials to dismiss the public good to mostly consider the rich’es and their good. - disengagement through manufactured consent, learned helplessness, divide-we-fell polarized animosity and non-participation.. yes, and celebrity chefs. - mass-media oligopoly. - insane student debt bubble, just the latest bubble. - largely morally- and ethically-unmoored, unregulated market chicanery leveraging complexity, obscurity and trade volume speculating to alter the worth of real capital. - large, diffuse official workforce participating in inverted totalitarian wage-slavery and living in their vehicles. more co-ops employee ownership, shorter work weeks, higher pay relativr to the cost of living and workers on boards-of-directors are needed. - “excess” labor due to automation and outsourcing. those “better jobs elsewhere” rarely materialized, hence opioid crisis. - opiod crisis. - undocumented workforce which subsidizes costs of many essential goods for the lower-income classes with their cheap labor. - complex geopolitical situation in an ever-flattening, connected and population-stabilizing work (sans Africa). Maybe in a million years Bezos will be the first quintillionaire Morlock and feast on the marrow of the Eloi while paying for everyone’s UBI since there’s no jobs left except Scruffy, the Janitor. |