I’ve posted on various threads over the past few years that anyone making $50K or more has forces scrambling furiously behind the scenes to either move the work elsewhere or bring foreigners here to do it. You’re exactly right with the feudalism analogy; our overlords have determined a new (lower) standard of living, and are shunting people into it with various schemes like the H-1B program.
On Asian (American) co-worker was disgusted to see how much some foreigners were being paid (in a financial field); it wasn’t much less than Americans, but they could be regularly worked 60+ hours per week (and the whole benefits arrangement was scaled back). Illegals can’t be used to fill some low-wage jobs (as in fast-food chains, where hiring illegals isn’t an option); instead, they just import masses of illiterate/unskilled LEGAL aliens to do it. I’m shocked at how many bank tellers are foreign, and how many branch managers speak with accents; all of these jobs had been done by Americans in the past.
The EITC, ObamaCare, and SNAP are all designed to force American taxpayers to subsidize the “minimum standard of living” the lords of the feudal manor have set for these invaders.
I was surprised when I read the stories recently about life expectancy declining for working class whites.
This was followed, of course, by all the usual bull---- about "irresponsible" behavior regarding drugs and alcohol, as though working class whites today consume anything like the alcohol or cigarettes they did, say, in the 1950's.
The real reason remained unspoken: working class white males who refuse to see their families go on welfare and are desperately trying to stay in the lower middle class are working themselves to death.
When they can no longer do so, because there are no jobs or illness or exhaustion set in, they kill themselves.