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If you think you're going to have anything but a very very very difficult and tough life being a farmer or rancher...
you've only experienced it buy buying produce/meat at your local warehouse supplier, and think about those industries as romanticized perversions of what small farming actually is. (Because, there's zero chance you're going in as a greenhorn with the financial backing to be anything but).
Yet middle American farmers have fed 70% of the world for well over 50 years now.
We shut down the government's control over the price and allow the free market to take place and you'd
see megafarms being walled up and the cost of (ex) an ear of corn go from .10-.25c in the summer to whatever
the market called for. $6/ear ? $10 ? We'd see just how many morbidly obese people there were when their food bill goes from $150/person (per month) to $1000.
Anyways, regarding "rich" .Whether or not America wants to admit it...we've slowly been weening people into a caste system for a very long time.
Here are what I think the real "classes" (really castes) that exist today.
1- The Destitute (Beggars)
2- The naturally lazy (Welfare class) Includes both willfully/dutifully lazy as well as the encouraged to
sell their efforts/energy to be "taken care of" and the handicapped.
3- Minimum wage/ Minimum life. - Those that have a small sense of pride. Just not enough pride in the self to
want to achieve more than what just gets them buy. "bare necessities". If They find another person, they bring them up/down to this level and maintain the "just getting by" life.
4- The Opportunists. - These are the people who are looking to scam a system that's scamming them.
Think "Our cam" girls, drug dealers, salesmen, ...basically where the allure of "getting rich quick" overpowers
any cognizant understanding that these aren't actual skills and thus will always (eventually) lead you back down
to the "just getting by" class.
5- Drones / Pluggers - Most people fit this. These are people who want to believe the system works for them if they work for the system. They just want to be left alone , be given some small morale tokens (usually through titles) and believe they're much better off than they are. They have less than $1500 in liquid cash at anytime, but convince themselves that they're "middle class" or even "lower upper class".
They're wrong. They're the people who put in 55 hours a week , making someone else(s) insanely wealthy while
they miss their kids growing up and push their kids off onto the state to "learn" ...then are confused and angry when "their" spawn don't hold the same values or ideas.
This is the separation of 85% of all people and the actual decision makers.
6- The "educated cows" and entertainment specialists. (top 80th-95th percentile )
These are the people who end up in either middle management positions, academia, but it also includes the
professional athletes (lower 95%), actors (non leading roles). Be in physical or through academia ..these are
the people who've been GIVEN some cheese for their hours of preparation (Gym/Library) and are given
a symbol of achievement. (Degree, Trophy, Contract). These are the modern day slave drivers.
These people are the most dangerous because their "achievements" are the standards, by which all others, are
expected to follow.
7- The director class.
This group is made up of (The 96th 99th percentile) This is the celebrated "elites" who are held up as the epitome of success. These are the people who are known by names (within their industry as well as globally)..think "Gucci" or "DKNY". These are the most useful tools in the box as their jobs are to give the instructions/commands out.
They don't hold any ideas of their own, but are great at presenting the message out
in ways that the lower classes both understand and will blindly follow.
This includes both the "headliner" performers as well as the media....whose main
job is to keep us misinformed as well as overly emotional confused animals incapable
of questioning.
8- The owners.
Pretty self explanatory. They don't own the pieces of the game , nor the game itself.
They own the makers of the game , the ideas of the game, and the rules to how
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[–] DanaNordic ago
Perhaps I misunderstood your definition of rich. For me, there is a wide range between rich and poor.
[–] Mind_Games ago
I'm thinking that's very likely.
If you think you're going to have anything but a very very very difficult and tough life being a farmer or rancher...
you've only experienced it buy buying produce/meat at your local warehouse supplier, and think about those industries as romanticized perversions of what small farming actually is. (Because, there's zero chance you're going in as a greenhorn with the financial backing to be anything but).
Yet middle American farmers have fed 70% of the world for well over 50 years now.
We shut down the government's control over the price and allow the free market to take place and you'd
see megafarms being walled up and the cost of (ex) an ear of corn go from .10-.25c in the summer to whatever
the market called for. $6/ear ? $10 ? We'd see just how many morbidly obese people there were when their food bill goes from $150/person (per month) to $1000.
[–] Mind_Games ago
Anyways, regarding "rich" .Whether or not America wants to admit it...we've slowly been weening people into a caste system for a very long time.
Here are what I think the real "classes" (really castes) that exist today.
1- The Destitute (Beggars)
2- The naturally lazy (Welfare class) Includes both willfully/dutifully lazy as well as the encouraged to
sell their efforts/energy to be "taken care of" and the handicapped.
3- Minimum wage/ Minimum life. - Those that have a small sense of pride. Just not enough pride in the self to
want to achieve more than what just gets them buy. "bare necessities". If They find another person, they bring them up/down to this level and maintain the "just getting by" life.
4- The Opportunists. - These are the people who are looking to scam a system that's scamming them.
Think "Our cam" girls, drug dealers, salesmen, ...basically where the allure of "getting rich quick" overpowers
any cognizant understanding that these aren't actual skills and thus will always (eventually) lead you back down
to the "just getting by" class.
5- Drones / Pluggers - Most people fit this. These are people who want to believe the system works for them if they work for the system. They just want to be left alone , be given some small morale tokens (usually through titles) and believe they're much better off than they are. They have less than $1500 in liquid cash at anytime, but convince themselves that they're "middle class" or even "lower upper class".
They're wrong. They're the people who put in 55 hours a week , making someone else(s) insanely wealthy while
they miss their kids growing up and push their kids off onto the state to "learn" ...then are confused and angry when "their" spawn don't hold the same values or ideas.
This is the separation of 85% of all people and the actual decision makers.
6- The "educated cows" and entertainment specialists. (top 80th-95th percentile )
These are the people who end up in either middle management positions, academia, but it also includes the
professional athletes (lower 95%), actors (non leading roles). Be in physical or through academia ..these are
the people who've been GIVEN some cheese for their hours of preparation (Gym/Library) and are given
a symbol of achievement. (Degree, Trophy, Contract). These are the modern day slave drivers.
These people are the most dangerous because their "achievements" are the standards, by which all others, are
expected to follow.
7- The director class.
This group is made up of (The 96th 99th percentile) This is the celebrated "elites" who are held up as the epitome of success. These are the people who are known by names (within their industry as well as globally)..think "Gucci" or "DKNY". These are the most useful tools in the box as their jobs are to give the instructions/commands out.
They don't hold any ideas of their own, but are great at presenting the message out
in ways that the lower classes both understand and will blindly follow.
This includes both the "headliner" performers as well as the media....whose main
job is to keep us misinformed as well as overly emotional confused animals incapable
of questioning.
8- The owners.
Pretty self explanatory. They don't own the pieces of the game , nor the game itself.
They own the makers of the game , the ideas of the game, and the rules to how
the game is played.