The U.S. Economy Is Designed For The Affluent

And where you see it most is child care.

On my worst days, I think the economy will roll forward with stagnant wages, a general lack of care for women, re-training programs that don’t work, and a continued burying of heads in sand piles about automation for roughly another 70 years, and then the whole thing will collapse, and there will be no jobs unless you were already affluent, and we’re in a Mad Max type situation where people are getting killed over milk. Hopefully it’s not that drastic, but I’m 40 now and I’d be 110 in 70 years, and since I’m not a very healthy person as is, I doubt 110 is in my cards, so I shall likely never know.

This morning I was checking out the Numlock News —

Walter Hickey

— newsletter and came across this: