Wealth, influence and paranoia

Post industrial: Don't make anything. Base a society and an economy on information and knowledge.

Knowledge must be made valuable. The only way to make something valuable is to make it hard to get. If diamonds were lying around on the ground like pebbles, it would be worthless.

In the west, the birth rate is below 1.5. China is rethinking it's one child policy because the birth rate is dropping below 1.7. The west is doomed. This does not make China a good place or a good government. This does not make China better than the west. It is just a fact. Wonder no more why we have no border on this country. We need the population increase or we will die out as a nation.

Somebody has to do the work. Someone has to clean the toilets. Someone has to mow the grass. Someone has to build things. If no one lifts a hammer, nothing gets built. By flooding the market with people who are not on the books and are willing to work for much less than people who are on the books and must pay taxes, you drop the bottom out of the market for such jobs. This action drives people who are on the books to intellectual level jobs.

Patents, copyright, lawsuits, law enforcement, credit, land ownership, cash, it is all a stack of promises. Our government can step in and with the wave of a pen, take it all away.

How many people do I know who have an escape plan? Where are you going to go? Unless you plan on defecting to another planet, they will come after you and find you.

Many people think they are on the elite list. I have news, you are on the same lists with the rest of us. No one you know will find themselves free on the other side of the bad day. Think about it. You had power and influence. You are the last people to be trusted. The survivors will be the sheep, police, medical, farmers, most of the military and other fields one needs to maintain a society. I weep for marketing executives and beauticians. I'm not sure if IT people will seem handy after this bad day of transition.

It will not be a single day. The transition will happen right in front of your eyes. People will suffer greatly. Change always brings or pleasure. We as a society will be nickeled and dimmed for money and freedom until only the strong of will have any say in their own lives.

Who's plan is this anyway? Who wields that kind of power over multiple countries and so many people? Follow the money. Banks. Sovereign funds. The U. S. owes future generations more money than exists in the world. If the bad day is close enough why not run up the credit card? I'm not on the correct side of the line. When it all falls down, I'll be on the ground, still.