doomer

My only real observation at this point is that I am surprised more people aren't noticing how much bullshit it all is. It does feel like it's deliberate, like they're the cartoon wolf that ran over the cliff edge and if they don't look down they won't fall. I can't fault them for clinging to that ignorance because its all they have left. I feel like speed of each new scam phenomenon is accelerating and the rate is increasing. It feels like only yesterday they were hooting about cartoon apes. Now there's AI in your microwave. Eventually the residue of the last scam will still be left on the target preventing the new scam from sticking. Eventually there's no more stretch left in the rubber band.

What does kinda frighten me (in addition to the usual concerns) is that we'll be going into the collapse more atomized than ever. With more unproductive bullshit experience from our bullshit jobs. It's daunting.

Will the workers truly only wake up when the mass starvation starts?

Don't count on it. Hardship and deprivation doesn't turn you into a morally superior person. Without an organised militant labour movement it is much more likely that the declining standards of living will turn western workers even more far right. After all, the basis of fascism is people who think they are not receiving the privileges they are owed.

Car sales people are literally the absolute worst. I did it for a few months after moving to a new city. They brag about ripping people off. FYI never buy from a dealership.

Will the workers truly only wake up when the mass starvation starts?

Yes, and by then it will be far too late.

"The workers" will not wake up on their own, ever. Concerted organizing is always required and even the successful movements never arrive fully formed. Expect overt violence and heightened contradictions. More fertile ground for organizing coupled with repression and 20 new kinds of Pinkertons. Trying to organize younger workers that won't recognize the dangers of organizing with their phones and spying cloud services until their friends start dying. There is no guarantee that "the workers" will succeed on any first round. The path may involve a fascisy takeovet, bourgeous revolution, and only then a socialist surge. The intermediary period could look like the status quo but with a higher prison population, lower pay, higher rent, worse education, and increased reactionary sentiment.

We do still need to organize, to build the best possible path. And hey, there might be a soft balkanization where we can organize more safely in certain states.

The scams can continue longer than i can stay alive. It's a deep pool.