While I have a large personality, I have been a lot less attention-seeking as I have observed the competition for eyeballs. Back when I was doing DecipherCity.Org, I spent hours online engaging with Facebook; I did minimal posting on LinkedIn; and YouTube became one of many outlets. However, I also discovered that unless I wanted to negate my very existence, I was never going to make real money, and many people have said that I need to do more than this blog, YouTube, and Medium. The major challenge in the empire is that all the “business strategies” are appealing to attention-seekers, and not all attention is either good or easy to attract.
First of all, there is constant validation required, but only for the working-class slobs. As a customer service worker, I was constantly told to be on edge for surveys, and that getting something less than ideal would translate to me potentially losing my job. Note: people can say all the nice things, get people exactly what they want, and still never receive a positive comment. Moreover, the feedback loop is only for frontliners, not for management, the people who actually implemented this unrealistic system that makes people unemployed. Working-class individuals do not need people telling us that we did “a good job,” because we know if we did a good job when the problems are resolved, but managers think that nothing is true unless they can quantify it, and that is the problem with the whole business models.
Sadly, technoligarchs and psychopaths have spent the last 20 years buying all the outlets that could mention negative aspects of the businesses. Nobody gets a real review of any of these companies because reporters have bills to pay, too. Business education is about becoming a psychopath, and people relabel that atrocious behavior as being a “true economist.” In short, the “business” community has imprinted on their brains that “everyone is ‘jealous,’ and that’s the only reason there’s criticism,” which means that healthy business practices are fever dreams. Not being able to be realistic about labor shortages and operation costs is why people are having such a horrible time existing.
Obviously, I am one of many stating that none of these business owners have any common sense, and like the rest of the disillusioned masses, I am not living high on the hog. There is nothing discrete about alienating critical thinkers who look at reality and refuse to soothe egos, and all of these moronic billionaires could never win in fair fights. Knowing that they have destroyed the lives of many, they need to be constantly validated about how “good” they are to throw chump change at charity while keeping humanity in dire straits. People keep pointing out math, and instead of changing behavior, they keep building bunkers so that they never have to hear a “No” or “That sounds wrong.”
Additionally, most obnoxious business owners spent their time pressuring politicians who also have no principles. Rather than consider that wealthy mindsets are idiotic, they demand that politicians cater to the thoughtlessness of living without principles or resource constraints. Elections mean nothing because fundraising demands that people cater to those who can get them re-elected–not that they plan to do anything once they get in office. Thus, the politicians regurgitate their business owner’s leash mandates, nothing changes, and everyone suffers, thinking that the business owners are anything but a problem. Nobody learns anything and society is much worse for it.
Finally, the monopolists have convinced everyone that stability, contracts, and good faith are worthless, and have transitioned the practice of the work now, and the money later. None of these jackwagons connects the dots to understand how bills and finances work because money has shielded them for their entire lives. They were raised by segregated parents who taught nonsense based on segregation, and they have applied that illogic to the rest of their existence. Starvation, eviction, and communication cutoffs are theoretical to them as they continue to justify not giving people resources “until the contract terms are met.” That is not a health strategy to maintain for an entire nation.
Demanding that everyone struggle for the same $50 is why organizing has diminished and people are getting tired of being told to come together and/or be patient. Economics has to mean something other than “I took it, so I deserve it” and “Watch me enjoy all the money I refuse to pay you.” Diverting attention to envying terrible people mean nothing if the majority of folks in the empire are going to starve. Maybe constantly rewarding attention-seeking behavior has reduced the capacity to exist in the shadows.
Chasing A Dying Empire 