In looking for work during the last few months, I have noticed a trend of pay-per-view on job sites. Theoretically, there are free sites, but most of the jobs are outdated without salary descriptions or low salary descriptions, and likely scams. Recently, I received what I thought was an interview, but turned out to be a sales pitch, during which I was told to invest $395 for a chance to be on the board of some companies. Writing databases need to be paid, job databases need to be paid, and none of these paid databases can offer statistics about how investments turn into paid job opportunities. I have even paid for a housesitting database, and I was thankful that I was able to get a refund because by the time I was ready to give up, I definitely needed the money. All of this has cemented one thing about how capitalism works: everything is a trap.
Despite the existence of parasites, people have claimed for centuries that capitalism is a symbiotic relationship between business owners, governments, and constituents. Self-described “elites” have managed to convince themselves that exploitation is the only way for nations to manage their revenue. At this point in time, all we have seen is that everyone wants to go to the party, but nobody wants to pay the piper. Instead of realizing that eventually the bill comes due, all of those “elites” who offered nothing are still trying to convince the everyday worker that our ship will come in if we devote just a little more time, energy, and resources to delusions. Rather than maintaining stable communities with a few outliers, the entire planet has become a nation of instability, violence, and overall depression and anxiety because of the lack of socialization caused by this parasitic system.
Without fail, the biggest problem with the United States is that no one will put an end to the “gotcha” culture, accompanied with platitudes to keep emotionally manipulating the masses. Telling everyone that we all have the possibility of “success” in the form of billions of dollars does nothing to mitigate climate change or heal the divides between us. The majority of the global population has done everything possible in a thousand different ways, but instead of being pleased and grateful, there is always a demand for more. We think we have enough figured out to live relatively small lives, and suddenly the rules change, leaving us stranded for resources. Anyone to says anything about it is told that we lack the will or the productivity to make such claims.
There is only one problem with supporting delusions on the off-chance that something will work out: time is a luxury that poor people lack, and the longer it takes for all of those promises to materialize, the more resources are being expended. It is literally impossible for people to pay all of our bills, house and feed ourselves, and sustain relationships on the promise that “one day,” we might have stability. We begged and we begged for centuries and decades for things to work out so that we could take a rest, and we are all still being told to wait just a little while longer, despite the rise in poverty and mental health issues. There is no appealing to “elites” who have the power to stop draining everyone into exhaustion, but choose not to do so. It is irrelevant how they are told; people who want more, want more.
After everyone has failed and people supposedly function by artificial intelligence, those who created such a destructive atmosphere refuse to accept responsibility for the harm they caused, nor will they work to correct it. No one asked to be stripped of our humanity, but because some people manage to make this abusive system work, “elites” continue ranting about resilience, making it the fault of the targets instead of our abusers. If anyone complains or raises an issue about how the “elites” are failing, swarms of deluded followers aggressively drown out such voices until they are a whisper. It is mind-boggling to consider that humanity is nearly a quarter of a century into the next millennium, and society is still dealing with an inability to hear the word, “No.”
Ironically, sycophants to the system create trends which feed abusers, which is why “elites” hoped they could continue to drain us without consequence for a few more years. Sycophants have no new ideas, double down on problematic ideology, and manipulate the masses into enabling behavior while bleating that there is nothing more to be done than follow the status quo. Historically, this was the middle class, but no such thing exists now that socioeconomic inequality is so blatant and nearly impossible to overcome. People who depend on propaganda to feel safe and understood are ultimately the most dangerous people in an era of truth-telling, because sycophants are dangerous when cornered.
What happens to parasites if they fail to find hosts? They die, because they bring nothing to a situation except extraction. The only thing that anyone can do to end the parasitism of capitalism is to stop feeding it, and to stop the hyperconsumption of things that no one needs to fill the void that elites indoctrinated into the population. All the nations are panicking because people are terrified of becoming parents, and all of the retirement systems depend on everyone having the quantity of babies that were birthed in the past. No one in power has any plan other than to perpetuate the status quo, and the “elites” are now afraid that no one believes their lies when the majority of the population already understands the status quo to be a lie, and we have nothing left to give.
Chasing A Dying Empire 