The Least Important Election of Our Lifetime

Whichever bozo gets elected tomorrow, the same shit is going to happen.

For some reason Trump voters think Biden caused runaway inflation--that started when Trump was President and the feds gave away $2.3T because of the stupid COVID scam. Trump went along with all the COVID insanity. He pushed operation warp speed... that white liberal doofuses eventually loved.

Kamala Harris initially criticized operation warp speed, but then she did a 180 once her handlers told her what to say.

Kamala Harris is a non-entity. She's a continuation of the Obama years, which were a continuation of the Bush years.

The problems in the US are problems with the public at large, not just the corporations or the government. The whole country has been corrupted by an insane, inbred ruling class that's pushed short sighted self serving policies.

The typical political partisan lives in a land of make believe, especially the lefties who are just in a complete fantasy world.

Good YouTube Channel

This guy has a good handle on the nuts and bolts of the socio-economic scenario in the US and western world.

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Fail Your Way to the Top!

Intel is apparently financing a big PR campaign to try to sell the story line that they're not failing tech company like DEC was, or Sun Microsystems was, etc... they're a unique national treasure that the US can't function without, so Intel wants endless government cheese. I think the sales pitch is aimed at the goofball retard politicians and "elite" dope class.

The current CEO of Intel made hundreds of millions of dollars so far in his position. I assume other executives are getting similar truckloads of cash and stock and perks even as their company goes on the dole full time.

There's a similar theme with the neocons--all their schemes were terrible, destructive failures, but they're still embraced and promoted by national media and similar institutions.

The same thing happens with crazy left wing ideas which are pushed from the top through prestigious schools like Yale or Harvard. Obvious, patently absurd ideas like "defund the police" and decriminalizing shop lifting blew up in the faces of the cities that put them into practice, but the dope squad that pushed those nonsensical ideas will face zero consequences for being abject failures.

In fact, there's not much room for pragmatic or practical people because the policies such a person would advocate might be viewed as "racist" or "antisemitic".

End of the Neoliberal System

Some major labor unions did not endorse Kamala Harris this election because their membership realizes the democrat party is the neoliberal party and doesn't represent them anymore--it hasn't for decades, but they finally figured it out.

Neoliberalism is just corporatocracy/oligarchy in drag and with effeminate/gay talking points. The behavior and policies of the US government are the same whichever party is in charge of the congress or the presidency, because all the "representatives" are basically just employees.

The MAGA republicans sort of figured it out, but have a pretty dim vision of what would need to change to "restore" America of even just 20 or 30 years ago. The typical democrat is either a beneficiary of the system itself and maybe has an apparatchik type job in an HR department or a tech job or professional job in some giant quasi-public institution, and/or also is a puritanical religious person that believes in global warmaids or think the government "helps" people in need--basically they believe propaganda that was on TV in the 1980s and 1990s.

Neoliberalism is a global phenomenon. The western countries are all hollowed out from it and some Asian countries are on the up-swing because of it. One of the main issues with the neoliberal system is the parasitic western "elites" imagined they'd control the countries they shipped western manufacturing to for the past 50  years. However, the "elites" in Asia decided to build and manage their own industries instead of serve as junior partners to western corporations in perpetuity, so even the executives at failing companies in the western world are now under threat from competition they created.

Anyway, the central governments in the west are the problem and not the solution to neoliberalism. I think Europe is just FUBAR and has a pretty bleak future and isn't really worth worrying about, at least from an American person's point-of-view. The western hemisphere, though, could actually enjoy a prosperous future if the current governments were purged and we rebooted a new financial system and promoted internal and local investment instead of global centralization of financialized wealth-tokens.

Good Depiction of "Elite Overproduction"

 We are watching the old TV show "Gilmore Girls". It's a chick show. The characters are supposed to be quirky, unique, and lovable but to me they're almost all awful

The main characters of the show are mother and daughter. The mother character got pregnant in high school and had the daughter at 16, so when the girl character is supposed to be high school age, the mother is supposed to be in her 30s.

The mother's family is wealthy New England snobs that had high expectations for the mother who lived a bohemian independent life, but transferred her own life expectations to the daughter. The high school aged daughter is obsessed with going to Harvard, and if not Harvard some other ivy league school. As part of her quest to do that she enrolls in an elite private high school, which is one of the central story lines in the show.

Anyway, the concept of "Elite Overproduction" from the historian Peter Turchin is depicted well in the show. The daughter is questing after an elite job, like a CNN reporter. The children of the wealthy families follow a script to get into a position in life, but eventually the positions run out or get diluted. CNN reporter is a great example: the entire media industry restructured, so all the kids pursuing an elite journalism role in the early 2000s were chasing after a largely obsolete job in a declining industry.

I think elite overproduction is really a symptom of systemic stagnation and decline. The "elite" population expands just like the overall population, but the defining characteristic of the elites is hyper-consumption of resources. They collectively impose a parasitic burden on everyone else. That's probably the main theme of our era: a bunch of entitled people get paid a lot, and the system is rigged to support their lifestyles.

For example, there's more managers and administrators than ever before in places like colleges and hospitals for example and the cost to fuel the lifestyles of those administrators drove rapidly inflating costs in both industries. There's probably more managers per capita in every industry, including tech. I saw that throughout my career.

The current dream of elite twats is a centrally planned expert managed economy that's totally automated so there's no jobs for anyone but them, and there's not even any competition for their positions. There's a corresponding authoritarian bent to their schemes, like the whole COVID scam, which demonstrated how fraudulent their claims of expertise are.