I've "got" everything I need. I don't have to deal with those people any more. And its a good thing, too, because I hear they're not hiring. They don't need resource mappers any more than they need spacecraft designers. Am I safe? Hell no. I'm vulnerable to all sorts of natural and human calamities; the world is in turmoil. But at least I'm not in debt and I own my own house, which means I'm in better shape than most of the people I know.

The fact is, the people in first class would rather not hire anybody. It's not that they are bad folks, not hiring people is their job. And failing that, they hire people somewhere else where they are cheaper, or they get into businesses that don't need workers at all, like finance. Do you really think that if you gave them everything they wanted they would be ready to give any of it to you? Right now their major goal is to avoid becoming just like us.

This is not ideological, TB. We would have wound up in the same place if Communism had won the Cold War. This is the way the world is now, capital and labor is free to cross boundaries and oceans, as are finished goods and raw materials and information. Nation-states and ideologies don't matter, only companies do, and they don't care what happens to people, they have their own ecosystem, their own metabolism, their own civilization, and your only role in it is to consume and to work. The world doesn't need as many people as it used to. Most of us are surplus.

You can't help but consume, and they don't need us any more to work. This is the world I saw coming 40 years ago, and its here right now. We had better get with the program. Things are not going to be any different regardless of who gets elected in November. It simply makes no difference.

As Rev Al says, "Corporations are NOT people, they're Republicans."