The amazing productivity of capitalism has enabled the creation of a class (The Overclass) that produces less than it takes in. From Chris MacIntosh at internationalman.com:
Let’s begin with how society functions. Today, we are in this unfortunate situation where the ostensible pillars of production are distinct from the actual pillars of production.
Let me explain…
The actual pillars of society (at least in terms of production) are agriculture, mining, fabrication, and transportation. All of these industries have benefited massively from technological advancements. Agriculture, for example, now uses harvesters as opposed to, say, oxen.
As a result, the actual number of people employed in agriculture continues to… you guessed it, fall. That’s a good thing! It frees up time for folks to do other things — build isht that doesn’t yet exist (this is how humans have advanced) or paint pretty pictures, play music, or write novels. The entire arts owes its existence to reducing the amount of time needed to actually provide for life functions. Stay with me because this part is important. The number of folks employed in “the arts” has therefore exploded upwards.
People tend to like these jobs, too. They’re more comfortable and less taxing on the body and increasingly less taxing on the mind as well. It is how we have such soft-brained individuals littering society today. The fact is, today we are drowning in comfort. Society is saturated with it. This is how universities have liberal arts degrees and gender studies, as if there’s more to know than that there are 2. There isn’t. That’s it.
And they always move against the middle class because that is where the counter revolutions come from.
Dirt poor serf subject or living large apparatchik are the only choices in the workers utopia.
Pol Pot Pleasure Penthouse for them, beet field collective or killing field for being smart with glasses for you.
All of it stale 19th century German bum horseshit and earlier from Fwance.
Enjoy the brioche comfort class because it doesn’t last forever.
Breaking from Terrorizer:
Hordes Of Zombies