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The Coming Revolt of the Middle Class
CharlesHughSmith.blogspot.com ^ | Charles Hugh Smith

Posted on 01/29/2021 8:44:54 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski

That's how Neofeudal systems collapse: the tax donkeys and debt-serfs finally rebel and start demanding the $50 trillion river of capital take a new course.

The Great American Middle Class has stood meekly by while the New Nobility stripmined $50 trillion from the middle and working classes. As this RAND report documents, $50 trillion has been siphoned from labor and the lower 90% of the workforce to the New Nobility and their technocrat lackeys who own the vast majority of the capital: Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018.

Why has the Great American Middle Class meekly accepted their new role as debt-serfs and powerless peasants in a Neofeudal Economy ruled by the New Nobility of Big Tech / monopolies / cartels / financiers? The basic answer is the New Nobility's PR has been so persuasive and ubiquitous: soaring inequality and Neofeudalism has nothing to do with us, it's just the natural result of technology and globalization--forces nobody can resist. Sorry about your debt-serfdom, but hey, your student loan payment is overdue, so it's the rack for you...

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Health/Medicine; Reference
KEYWORDS: capital; debt; economy; middleclass; overlords; serfdom; tyranny
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https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html

This Rand Corporation study shows that income inequality has skyrocketed since 1975. Trillions of dollars have been siphoned from the middle class to the elites. Advances in technology and automation have significantly reduced the elite’s need for middle class labor and management. Historically, this is a recipe for revolution. The elites know this. How can the elites maintain their position and reduce the likelihood of revolution?

Enter 2020 and the COVID-19 coronavirus; A lab gown virus the reduces the elder care burden. Then a forced vaccine that reduces world population by making everyone hypersensitive to future coronaviruses. At least that is what the following 2012 study says about Coronavirus vaccines. You make the call...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0035421

1 posted on 01/29/2021 8:44:54 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
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2 posted on 01/29/2021 8:45:51 AM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Silly. Americans are excited to get more of this. They don’t even understand what they’ve asked for, but the media tells them it’s good.

A guy my age, went to HS with him, he was also in the USN, is a fb friend of mine. He’s been all about getting rid of Trump. Trump is bad, Trump is evil, yada, yada. Now, I see him posting, chaffing at the things that Biden is putting in place, as if these things just magically happened and Biden has no part in it, (ok, that may be partially true).

I remind him that the things upsetting him are the things Trump was fixing... silence.


3 posted on 01/29/2021 8:49:38 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Red Badger

THE issue that binds Red and Blue together in the UniParty is the issue of electoral fraud.

Its why certain precincts have voted Red-Blue for over 100 years. It s the means by which Congress and K St lobbyist can guarantee “product delivery” to interest that pay enough
Various “intelligence agencies” are the enforcement arm

Its mutually assured destruction if either side starts to betray the long-standing inter-generational process.

Whenever the issue starts to bubble too close to the surface
we all start getting entertained with “pizza parties” and “SRA” issues-but these are only incidental to the business at hand-the selling of votes and legislation of the most powerful legislative body in the world.

The contemporary information-digital communications has the ability to put an end to all if this -which is why the “information war” here at home


4 posted on 01/29/2021 8:54:13 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: brownsfan

My go to reply to the demonic brain dead anymore is” Doesn’t that ring in your nose bother you?”


5 posted on 01/29/2021 8:56:42 AM PST by ragamuffin (Fed up)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

bookmark


6 posted on 01/29/2021 9:12:52 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: ragamuffin

“May your Chains
Hang Lightly”
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Not Sure


7 posted on 01/29/2021 9:16:12 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“This Rand Corporation study shows that income inequality has skyrocketed since 1975. Trillions of dollars have been siphoned from the middle class to the elites. Advances in technology and automation have significantly reduced the elite’s need for middle class labor and management. Historically, this is a recipe for revolution.”

If this country continues going down this road we’re going to have a revolution that makes the French Revolution look like a country picnic.

But our betters don’t care.they continue spending as if there is no tomorrow.

No amount of troops guarding the Peoples House will prevent the disaster that will be forth coming. I think these government officials already know this.


8 posted on 01/29/2021 9:20:40 AM PST by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Unless the American patriots stop paying federal taxes, this sham will continue.


9 posted on 01/29/2021 9:24:20 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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I have no problem with people getting filthy rich as a result of their hard work/ingenuity/talent or even the luck of being born to it. I've had a good run so far and wouldn't mind acquiring a nice schooner in another year or so.

What I do mind is when government and corporations become so ponderously large and intertwined that it morphs into, well, fascism. Which is the case now.

Big Tech has become the I.G. Farben of the 21st century, although I assume that the ovens awaiting us are much more advanced than those at Buchenwald.

10 posted on 01/29/2021 9:30:35 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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Bonjour, Scum, get back in the Walmart line where you belong!


11 posted on 01/29/2021 9:31:33 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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We already revolted. That was Trump’s election.

And the counter-revolution went on for four years until they finally gave up and committed massive felony election fraud, realizing that on an even playing field, they could not win.

So they have won the latest battle - Trump was forced to retreat - but the war’s not over. At least now people realize that there IS a war.

Meanwhile, the Pelosi gang buys up options knowing that their votes will make them skyrocket.

The New Nobility is exactly right, and what I’ve been saying here for 20 years.


12 posted on 01/29/2021 9:31:40 AM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: Regulator

I contend, this is why the vaccine is so important


13 posted on 01/29/2021 9:34:53 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Sirius Lee

Agreed!


14 posted on 01/29/2021 9:35:24 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: puppypusher

I contend, this is why the vaccine is so important


15 posted on 01/29/2021 9:36:22 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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How can the elites maintain their position and reduce the likelihood of revolution?

Keep the Plebes comfortable by satisfying all of their needs and enough of their wants. A complacent mob is a subservient one.

16 posted on 01/29/2021 10:16:16 AM PST by Intar
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To: RobertoinAL

Post of the Day !


17 posted on 01/29/2021 10:29:25 AM PST by Senormechanico
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To: GOP Poet

They will revolt only when their stomachs and bank accounts are emptied, then, all hell will break loose.


18 posted on 01/29/2021 10:50:34 AM PST by chopperk (Warnocdrk doesn't have a chance if Stacy sits on him.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Trust is the glue that holds the nation together—that has been undermined with the destruction Of Trump. He wasn’t the enemy—but now we know who they really are. Ans they are both “D”s and “R”s. Need new reform party to pull them from the ivory tower they built. Any populist move (like the Tea Party Was) will face the same unending attacks that Trump faced every day—Your Racist! Your Nazis, your Evil, your KKK—Out comes the Rebel Flags and mobs of Antifa to beat them into submission. If you go down that road—you must be ready to face beatings and even lose your life. But—is freedom worth it? If not—Turn in your guns, Submit to your number tattooed on your arm, and smile though the hunger that coming and dream of a USA that once was. The words of the old song “Try to Remember” comes to mind. A few will fight, underground, like the Weathermen of old. But this new America will quickly slip into the Ancient Modal—a few rich people in palaces, and a lot of poor in Hovels.


19 posted on 01/29/2021 10:52:49 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: Regulator
So they have won the latest battle

Was watching a YouTube commentator, and he made a point that I thought was excellent. Paraphrasing him, he said that the curtain had not only been pulled back for all to see, but had been ripped down and thrown in the corner and lit on fire.

20 posted on 01/29/2021 10:57:10 AM PST by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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