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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Dystopian Project 2025 Is Coming For America [View all]haele
(15,520 posts)The general workforce might be okay, except in those departments they're getting rid of or replacing with venture-capital run corporations and AI.
Government pensions, social security, and any sort of retirement investment will be gone, though. I guess us middling class and poors are supposed to work for the masters until we can't anymore, then just go off somewhere ditch-like and die, leaving our spot for the next tool to step in and do what it's told to.
Company complexes for the general workforce and "un-trustables" will be developed within the next few decades. Doesn't matter if they're in cities or out on remote federal facilities, Project 2025 ensures US society will be separated between the Respectable with Money, and everyone else - potential criminals or other riff-raff supporting or working for those with Money.
Just like the old Anti-Bellum Southern Plantation society. The compliant or fellow travellers, the "trusted staff", advisors, and those providing "security" will be able to live nearer to the Big Houses; their rewards will be left-overs and cast offs.
Not good for most of us. But for the wealthy, well - they're going to make a pile of money until it all comes crashing down around them. Because when it comes down to the basics, money in itself is only a transferrable value concept; it doesn't actually do anything other than suck up energy - perhaps hoarded in its physical representation (metal, stone, or paper) it can be used as a construction material.
But until it's given a broadly accepted value amongst everyone, money is basically useless. And all these mediocre but wealthy idiots pushing rich = smart know this in their greedy little hearts. That's why they have to value anything produced with or through physical attributes below the concept of the production of money.
Otherwise, they don't have power over a craftsman, tradesman, or any other person who provides them with whatever they want that they also don't want to work for or do on their own.
Only little people work to sustain themselves to an individual point of comfort (for the most part). The "elite" tell themselves they're smarter because they work to accumulate more money beyond any amount they would ever need.
Haele