"Recovery"

Low-wage jobs, part-time jobs, or temporary jobs have been the vast bulk of the “jobs” created during the “recovery” since 2009 from The Great Recession.

Plutocrat Service Doesn't Generate Enough

People want to do useful work.  There’s just not enough of it in a plutocratized economy, one designed to serve the wealthy, because there’s just not enough wealthy people.  The shrinking middle class doesn’t have the economic wherewithal to make enough of a difference, and certainly isn’t going to borrow much more.  Even the mismatch of skills, where a number of good jobs go begging because there’s no one qualified to fill them, does not account for enough to truly make a difference even if they were filled.

And so you don’t get a real “recovery.”

When Neither Knowledge of History nor Knowledge and Concern About Government and Politics Are Valued

How a relatively small group of wealthy people have managed to 1) transfer incredible wealth to themselves, 2) gradually and dramatically underfund government while increasing its burdens, 3) seed the lexicon with terms of “bloated” programs (although the ones they desire are never included) and “excessive” social benefit—nay, “entitlement”—transfers, and 4) control and divert the economics and politics of a supposed democracy,  can perhaps be summed up in the following:

To expound on John Fugelsang, the extremely rich got the rich to convince much of the middle class that the poor, including the working poor, were responsible for all the middle class’s problems, and the rich and extremely rich are “small businessmen” and “good job creators” being so unfairly “persecuted” via “huge and oppressive” taxation and regulation, that the middle class needs to rally behind the goal of gutting government and further lowering taxes for the wealthy—even though as that happens, the situation of the middle class gets worse and worse.

Only a citizenry obsessively concerned with only the “private” sphere could, over decades, let willful ignorance dramatically undermine the public sphere, and as a result, disempower and impoverish themselves.

Now, Now, Padawan

Often, people under 35 don’t want to wait—for anything—and want to be entertained and satisfied at all times, an unreasonable expectation.  I’ve seen people playing a group GAME, who declare they’re not having fun and just want to quit, merely because of a momentary lull where the spotlight is off THEM, the individual.

If we become a society where the only things we choose to and are able to focus on for extended periods are individual distractions, who and what will that serve?