Either a genuine socialist revolution attempt that kicks peoples a$$es hard enough to not ignore the 50% of Americans who’re going to be left without any legitimate means of income, or we just become part of the permanent underclass.
Myself I’m hoping that euthanasia gets legalized sometime soon so at least the permapoor have a way out.
In a round about way I agree with you. We may have become too efficient for the good of the underclass. Too many unskilled chasing too few jobs that don’t even pay a modest living wage.
There are those who want to work but what is the point if it results in working poverty when the “responsible” better option for the family is welfare so long as it is available?
I’m watching a young man who had a very good job that ended slowly melting down to nothing. All he can find are jobs that might allow him to earn maybe $20K a year. A family can’t possibly make it on that. They can hardly make it on twice that.
There is also a factor of self-imposed responsibility to not procreate where there is no means of support. There have to be consequences for irresponsible actions even when those actions involve otherwise innocent children. When does the bedraggled family of six dragging into Walmart with four filthy pitiful little snot nosed kids and one in the oven become a matter of trampling on my rights and the well being of my family who I am doing my best to support well while having a third to half of my labor confiscated to support these irresponsible and unwilling or unable to produce and provide people?
If 50% of the indians on the continent did not hunt or gather there would have been half as many to subdue and rob of their land. The crew of spaceship earth that does work can’t do the work of two or more either.
The progeny of such a gene pool are very unlikely to ever be very capable of self-support. This cycle of ever expanding non-skilled, non-working dependents has to be broken. An otherwise prosperous society will not be prosperous long if the half that does not work expands exponentially to the detrement of the shrinking percentage that do work and produce for the benefit of themselves and others.
Pay or pay with subsidy must increase for menial jobs. Something to the good of the whole must be produced by everyone who benefits from the whole. Something for absolutely nothing must end. They cycle of exponentially expanding dependends who do nothing must end for the good of all but how?
The other side of the coin is that wealth concentrated in the hands of so few is not sustainable either. This is not to say from each according to his means and to each according to his needs but really? How much more lavishly or well can one live with a billion dollars vs 50 billion dollars? I suggest that it is not a factor of having worked too much and accumulated too much but having profited from the work of others more than necessary or even reasonable. Greed has no natural boundaries.