So, I’ve been thinking of this, and I’m starting to formulate a theory. Hear me out here:
Starting during the Clinton Administration, you began to see what I would call the Era of Deregulation. It began with things that didn’t seem like such a big deal, like media or banks. Starting roughly around 1999-2000, you saw that come to manufacturing. Since 2000, more than 50,000 factories have moved overseas. Not 50,000 jobs, 50,000 FACTORIES.
Now, stay with me here, because this is the part I think is important: In his State Of The Union address last week, Joe Biden Insisted that people needed to start going back to working in buildings, that ….. what was it? We needed to return to “our beautiful downtowns”, or whatever the shit?
I think that’s because work from home has exposed the dirty little secret of our economy: that most of what we do is useless shit, we lost the biggest part of our economy when we allowed manufacturing to become someone else’s financial cornerstone to their economy. That by not having tangible things, things we can lay our hands on, THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO BE THERE TO ACTUALLY MAKE/DO, we don’t have much of an economy at all.
I’m saying all this in response to the people saying that it’s the landlord class, or the owners, or whatever else you might think it was. Not that I think you’re wrong, just that I think there’s a bigger picture to see.
And that bigger picture centers around the fact that you, the worker, the employee, the middle class, you’re not just expendable.
You’re ….. WE’RE ….. fucking disposable.