Playing with Their Food

If anyone thinks that things have become unnecessarily difficult, they are absolutely right, and there is no reason for the damage. Reality states that in a capitalist system, everyone needs to work to eat, live, and pay bills, so there should be relatively few barriers to such an existence. Only in the empire would the system exist without allowing the money to eat, live, and pay bills–while allowing the media to shame people into believing that their poverty was due to personal failings, rather than predators who are constantly seeking more. More and more, people are starting to realize that the predators are playing with their food, who are oddly called consumers.

Anyone trying to live alone has either had to deal with a complete loss of discretionary income, or living in a potentially toxic situation. When wages covered the cost of living, people were able to escape toxicity or continue lives alone, which allowed people to exist in relative peace. By raising the cost of living, the “elites” took away solitude, forcing many people to stay in either dysfunctional families or other unhealthy relationships. At the same time, most of the jobs that have been available are customer service jobs, which both require positive engagement and are in the process of being replaced by AI. This has increased the friction between people in general because living with people who like to harass others can emotionally dysregulate others.

Speaking of which, one of the most cruel behaviors of the “elites” is taking away the opportunities for quiet in the lives of many. People praise suburbs because of the “quiet,” but that was only based on segregation and inherent socioeconomic inequality, which meant that people who lived in cities were forced to deal with common noise, such as factories and construction. In fact, the mythology of “crime in cities” was based more on noise among marginalized communities, which was why so many of us moved to the suburbs–only to find out how we would be harassed as “noisy.” By the destruction of public space without consumption, people who claim to enjoy peace and quiet took away the peace and quiet of others, just for the sport of it.

The “elites” have thoroughly enjoyed cramming us all together, while telling us to buy more with less space to put it. Even though several people are now sharing bedrooms and have been required to have roommates, that has not stopped the marketing industry from telling everyone that we need more stuff. In fact, many people–myself included–have stopped engaging with those who cannot respect the boundaries of folks living in limited space, and continue to buy more without thinking about how the people owning the stuff would live. Rather than recognize that people should have more space for themselves, the “elites” prefer to watch the drama unfold when more people are trapped together.

Finally, the “elites” have kept the same propaganda without adjusting to the reality that they were creating. They are still talking about how nobody wants to work without accepting the responsibility for not hiring. Older people are still waxing poetic about financial responsibility without considering that the cost of “starting out” has drastically changed, and is unaffordable for most. With unlimited funds to mainstream media–and the demand to dominate the minds of others–the “elites” prefer to rouse violence by making life intolerable, and blaming their targets, instead of backing off and letting all of us live.