07-14-2023, 10:28 PM
(07-14-2023, 09:04 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: That's because the employers don't want to fix the problem. They enjoy the cheap labor too much. They lobby the officials to make sure the resources don't go to doing the things that would help the problem.
I feel like it's the downfall of the country, to be honest. In the nation's best years, ie post WWII, any one could get a decent job. It didn't take a college education. It barely took a high school diploma. Work in some factory, get a house, a wife that can stay at home or not, buy a car or two, pop out some kids, retire relatively comfortably. Be a cop, a mailman, a fireman, whatever. The equation was you work, you get paid, you have a pretty solid life. One of the most enviable existences on the planet. Maybe even take a vacation, go to a movie or take the family out to eat once a week.
Now, all of that shit is really expensive and companies pay shit for retirement. 6 figures was once a standard of making good money. Now it's barley enough to be middle class in most places.
When people had money to afford distractions and niceties, you didn't have republicans running around calling everyone they see a baby eater. You also didn't have "woke" culture shaming everyone into stupidity. People were content with their lives, to a degree, and starting shit was less of a hobby.
The rich got richer, by a lot. The middle class and poor got poorer. Now anyone who isn't rich just wants someone to blame everything on. Conveniently, they have a whole other half of the country that hates them just as much.
If people by and large got back to non-economic hell, I think the polarization would recede greatly.
