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It's become clear to most of us that the societal collapse we've been anticipating has arrived. Some of us expected it to be a slow decline, while others less in-the-know have imagined immediate, shit-hitting-the-fan scenarios. Now, I'm not going to claim that some immediate, world-changing event could not suddenly happen, but I think we have a ways to go before someone gets desperate enough to cause one.
As of right now, people are reaching their breaking point, and it's becoming more and more common. People who were once part of the Fight for 15 protests are realizing how good they had it back then. Groceries have more than doubled. Fuel has more than doubled. The cost of homes, driven by boomer economics which treat them as an investment rather than a commodity that is needed by all, well, I've been in a position to buy a home twice now and had it slip from my grasp by rising cost. And rent has gone through the roof, even for in many cases, rentals where the roof is hardly even extant.
There is only so much that people are willing to tolerate. And while some few go on destructive sprees, I'm not predicting that it will end in revolt. People are too complacent and self-centered to organize on any scale of significance, and I honestly cannot say if that is because of decades of psyops, the unintended consequences of the internet, or both. In fact, I would claim that the majority, if not the entirety of the system is going to come down simply because so many people will be priced out of participating that there will not be enough to prop it up anymore. We are already seeing this as the boomers are beginning to die, and I would be willing to believe that the housing market, as well as other markets, are currently being artificially propped up by billionaires who are buying up any and all excess so that demand stays constant, because they have enough money to do so and they stand to benefit from the status quo being maintained. Another example of this is the recession we're clearly in, but which is not being treated as one because 7 billionaire tech companies are playing hot potato with exorbitant amounts of money, swapping it between each other to build countless surveillance centers.
However, this only puts off the issue, because the rich are propped up by the millions who buy their products and services, and these rich get to be rich because the rest of the people accept their money as valuable. I am beginning to see signs that this structure is losing cohesion as people are starting to use phrases like "the 1% lives in a different economy than you, a different life and a different universe."
It has become apparent that the richest companies in the country and the property they own in Congress do not understand or realize how bad it is that crop yields are down, what that means for us, what f
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