The Working Classes Are a Volcano Waiting to Erupt

[Swede]

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This growing class division is a global phenomenon. In 1974, the proportion of global corporate income that went to labour was about 64 per cent. It dropped to 59 per cent by 2012. This pattern has applied not only to wealthy markets in the West, but also to labour-rich markets like China, India and Mexico. In 2017, the Pew Research Center found that poll respondents in France, Britain, Spain, Italy and Germany are even more pessimistic about the next generation than those in the United States. Such sentiments are shared in countries like Japan and India, where many new college graduates fail to find decent employment. Well over two thirds of Mumbai youths are pessimistic about their prospects.

This erosion of opportunity sets the stage for a potential combustion of class anger, particularly as the pandemic and now Russia’s invasion threaten to make things worse.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/18/the-working-classes-are-a-volcano-waiting-to-erupt/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. It's the cycles of capitalism and politics in various countries tracked over 250 years now

Egalitarianism, then boom, concentration of capital, growth of culture to soothe the masses, then inequality, anger, conflict, a fascist solution, war or revolution, and begin the cycle anew. This time it's global? With resource restrictions? and climate change? and disease? Better hunker down.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. No war but ,class war.

[kimbutgar]

3. Unfortunately they have so dumbed down the white working class populace that they will vote repuke

Who will legislate against their best interests.

[Hoyt]

4. Unfortunately for workers, labor has been replaced by technology as the

major driver of productivity increases.

Government is going to have to find solutions— maybe Yang’s $1000 guaranteed income as a supplement— at some point.

[Kablooie]

5. This is going to be major problem in coming years.

AI will be able to efficiently perform many jobs that currently employ millions. All those workers will lose their means of support. It is going to be a simmering time bomb like the French Revolution unless the government finds solutions to keep families from starving.

[Hoyt]

6. Agree. Of course, designing, manufacturing, maintaining, updating, etc., AI will be a good job

for some time.

[Probatim]

8. Keep in mind, WV voters were given a choice between job training and poverty in 2016.

They chose poverty and, looking at their support for Manchin, will continue to choose poverty over education.

None of the good paying jobs will be available to the portion of Americans who actively support their own destruction.

[Hoyt]

9. I know it's sad. But people have right to screw themselves in a democracy if that is what they want.

[Probatim]

10. If they screwed themselves in a vacuum, it would be ok.

[Hoyt]

11. No question there is hurtful spill over. But what can we do?

[marie999]

12. Eventually AI will determine it doesn't need humans.