Reply #1: There's Lots of Work--The Real Question Is: [View All]

[Demeter]

Will I ever be paid anything? Even subsistence wages are hard to come by. For people who are set upon gathering middle class incomes and bennies, you have to either be born with connections or become a total prostitute at work.

The American economy has imploded. The best thing to do is FIND work--volunteer, pick wild food, cadge handouts, sort through dumps, make something out of nothing. The urban farms of Detroit are the shape of things to come.

People with ingenuity and a will to live will do so, regardless. Couch potatoes will not. Passivity and whining, unless devoted to sit-ins and strikes, will avail the populace naught.

This is class warfare. The revolution has already started. We didn't pick the age we live in, but we can chose how we face its challenges--in solidarity and imagination and true caritas, or in individualistic, all-or-nothing defiance of Reality. There is no going back. Or as they say in crisis:

When you find you're going through Hell, keep going!