Thanks so much for this. I am also generally curious about who will work any factory job that doesn’t pay a living wage. We have long surpassed the era of people entering into jobs where they do manual labor. Most folks who are currently being educated are being educated for “white collar” jobs.
The 'we'll all work in factories' is just a talking point, a fantasy.
Who would build these factories? What kind of factories will they be? If there's a depression, this will not prompt the building of factories. The dream of the American rich is not to build or run factories but to make money in finance.
They must be willing to do the jobs of manual labor, as quite literally, the food they eat, and what roof over their head might be available to them?..,will directly depend upon them being willing to do those jobs.
WELL spoken, with historic clarity and fact based wisdom.
I am a regular consumer of Free Speech Tv. One of the best programs on the network, is The Rick Smith Show (“The place where working people come to talk”).
He’s been making this point several times, (and this is a direct quote):
“We will find a solution and create a way forward ; due to, and as a direct result of, the pain, suffering, death, and collapse, just as our grand and great grand parents did 90+ years ago.”.
The cruelty, as always, has forever BEEN,
The Point:, from the financial, political, and religious fascists that always seek to own and destroy what they believe is theirs alone:
We must move through this and CREATE ;
Don’t WAIT for,
a path out of this collapse which will dwarf COVID-19, /2008, / and The Great Depression.
Thank you for not just naming the rot, but pointing toward the green shoots. Wheeling, WV feels like a map legend: not a utopia, but a use case. Proof that communities are building what the powerful can’t imagine and the market won’t fund.
Truly, I think now is the time for our communities to get organized so we have systems to support all of us when everything falls apart.
"One of the many lessons we need to internalize as hard times come our way is that we have to fight together even when it feels like we could maybe make it alone. You might have the resources to make it through by yourself, you might really have everything you need riding solo, but in order to have something more, in order to have thriving community and transform society so that we’re not stuck in cycles of fascism and economic collapse, we need each other. That truth is undeniable, even if we’ve spent our lives being told in ten different ways that we don’t need our neighbors. We’ll learn this lesson one way or another, and it’s a whole lot better to learn it today than a decade down the line."
We are faced with MUCH greater threats than the framers faced in 1787. This is a time to organize for a new fully democratic constitution. It is our basic right to peacefully change or alter our constitution, and it is morally, rationally, ethically, justified to do so immediately. It would be negligent to do any thing less.
I want to urge you to tune into the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. The kind of problems we face cannot be solved with the system that created them.
Hi, someone sent me a deck on his plan for organizing a C4. I said I know nothing about C4 fundraising. I used to be an Gotv organizer in college. I loved talking to random people on the street. But somewhere in the last 20 years I saw what a scam the whole political establishment is and lost hope. Genocide opened my eyes but I know there are good people, good hearts, good intention out there to be there for each other. The local and community level stuff matters now more than ever.
Good encouraging post! Keep it up!
Thanks so much for this. I am also generally curious about who will work any factory job that doesn’t pay a living wage. We have long surpassed the era of people entering into jobs where they do manual labor. Most folks who are currently being educated are being educated for “white collar” jobs.
The 'we'll all work in factories' is just a talking point, a fantasy.
Who would build these factories? What kind of factories will they be? If there's a depression, this will not prompt the building of factories. The dream of the American rich is not to build or run factories but to make money in finance.
For the time being?
They must be willing to do the jobs of manual labor, as quite literally, the food they eat, and what roof over their head might be available to them?..,will directly depend upon them being willing to do those jobs.
WELL spoken, with historic clarity and fact based wisdom.
I am a regular consumer of Free Speech Tv. One of the best programs on the network, is The Rick Smith Show (“The place where working people come to talk”).
He’s been making this point several times, (and this is a direct quote):
“We will find a solution and create a way forward ; due to, and as a direct result of, the pain, suffering, death, and collapse, just as our grand and great grand parents did 90+ years ago.”.
The cruelty, as always, has forever BEEN,
The Point:, from the financial, political, and religious fascists that always seek to own and destroy what they believe is theirs alone:
We must move through this and CREATE ;
Don’t WAIT for,
a path out of this collapse which will dwarf COVID-19, /2008, / and The Great Depression.
Great quote, thank you
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Thank you for not just naming the rot, but pointing toward the green shoots. Wheeling, WV feels like a map legend: not a utopia, but a use case. Proof that communities are building what the powerful can’t imagine and the market won’t fund.
Thanks for posting, Joshua, and I agree with you.
Truly, I think now is the time for our communities to get organized so we have systems to support all of us when everything falls apart.
"One of the many lessons we need to internalize as hard times come our way is that we have to fight together even when it feels like we could maybe make it alone. You might have the resources to make it through by yourself, you might really have everything you need riding solo, but in order to have something more, in order to have thriving community and transform society so that we’re not stuck in cycles of fascism and economic collapse, we need each other. That truth is undeniable, even if we’ve spent our lives being told in ten different ways that we don’t need our neighbors. We’ll learn this lesson one way or another, and it’s a whole lot better to learn it today than a decade down the line."
We are faced with MUCH greater threats than the framers faced in 1787. This is a time to organize for a new fully democratic constitution. It is our basic right to peacefully change or alter our constitution, and it is morally, rationally, ethically, justified to do so immediately. It would be negligent to do any thing less.
I want to urge you to tune into the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. The kind of problems we face cannot be solved with the system that created them.
I was part of Transition Towns in Westchester County NY. You are describing it’s principles.
Hi, someone sent me a deck on his plan for organizing a C4. I said I know nothing about C4 fundraising. I used to be an Gotv organizer in college. I loved talking to random people on the street. But somewhere in the last 20 years I saw what a scam the whole political establishment is and lost hope. Genocide opened my eyes but I know there are good people, good hearts, good intention out there to be there for each other. The local and community level stuff matters now more than ever.