[i]“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”[/i]
Conservatives love to talk about how our society is collapsing. I have seen them blame (some mixture of) the following:
- Porn
- Teacher's Unions
- Democrats
- Soros DAs
- Youth not getting married (between 18-25)
- Video games
- Participation trophies
- RINOs
- Drag queens
- LGB groups
- Marxists/"Cultural Marxists"
- Child predators
- Illegal immigration
- Men competing against womyn
- Divorced/single parent families
- Lowering of standards in education and employment
However, you will never hear one of them blame the glorification of "wealth" (or what passes as "wealth" these days). This, of course, is because conservatives themselves, as a whole, overwhelmingly worship Mammon, not God.
In this episode of [u][b]Why Most Of You Are Retarded[/b][/u], I will illuminate why THIS is the true harbinger of societal collapse.
[b]Mammonite Pillar #1: An Honest Day's Work 'Fer **** Pay[/b]
Older generations were smart. For example, a coal mine worker knew he was being exploited. He did not have any delusions of "becoming 'da boss" one day or some other **** nonsense. He knew the coal mine owner would hand off the deed to his lazy son, not to some "hard workin' folk bustin' his *** off." He also knew that, because his time on Earth was short (and made shorter by breathing in all that carbon monoxide), he wouldn't hesitate to grab his gun and go on strike, comrades willing.
The post-war era brought great blessings to America since all the other countries had their factories levelled. There was a semblance of meritocracy - hence the phrase [b]"honest day's work for an honest day's pay." [/b]
The problem is that, since the end of the Internet bubble, there has not been any "real"/organic growth. Yes, you can point to the rise of smartphones, of cloud computing, of IoT, of eCommerce...and more...and this sector has ballooned since 2000, but for those of you privy to the workings of technology, you are well aware that 1 tech job equates to > 1 (non-tech) job lost. For example, firms used to hire typewriters back in the 60s, but today a single administrative worker can do the job of 5 former typewriters. An Amazon "eCommerce" store today that can be run by a solopreneur would require 3-4 people in a retail setting 40 years ago.
If you want an even more recent/applicable example, the vast majority of small businesses today run on skeleton crews. It is not uncommon, for example, for one person today to do the job of 3 people back in the year 2000. This is due to small business' collapsing margins forcing the owners to cut costs whenever possible.
Due to the stagnation of the real economy, people have turned to all sorts of parlor tricks, gimmicks, and questionable hustles to make ends meet, and THIS is when conservatives revealed their true colors.
Instead of understanding that stagnant wages + high COL + rising expenses every year = low birth rate + contrary to family formation, and proposing some practical solutions that do not have to involve a heavy expansion of taxes or transfers (e.g. reducing zoning regulations, reducing immigration, some jobs programs that are self-funding), conservatives decided to double down on their worship of Mammon.
They basically ignored the issue (that is, stagnant wages + high COL => low birth rate + contrary to family formation). Many of them rejoiced at how their "housing equity" was going up, with their children and grandchildren's blood as black ink.
Which brings me to Pillar #2...
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