NPR says we are less productive now
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Globalists printed trillions of dollars and gave it mostly to themselves via special interests. Why the fuck would anyone want to work hard for those same dollars?
We’re in a recession bordering on a depression. The primary cause was modern monetary policy, enacted by fraudulently installed politicians and unelected deep state bureaucrats. Now these assholes are doing everything they can to blame us, the victims of their treachery. We aren’t working hard enough. We don’t have enough jobs. We’re demanding wages that are too high.
No. You fuckers torpedoed our currency by printing trillions of dollars. You fuckers send our tax money overseas, or spend it on illegal alien invaders, while ignoring our own infrastructure and citizens.
Americans are opting out of the tax and print and spend abuse perpetrated upon us by our government. The solution to this problem is not a new American citizenry created by mass immigration. The solution is not the fed hiking rates and attacking labor. The solution is a new fucking government that puts the well-being and interests of the American people first.
the solution is those responsible facing a punishment that will be told as a cautionary tale for the next two thousand years.
Used to be when I would say that I consider Keynes to have been the biggest villain of the 20th century, people would be aghast and confused.
I get that a lot less now.
It also leads to a decline in the quality of what workers you do have, since the dumb ones are breeding more than the intelligent ones.
Japan is largely empty. People choose to live in the megatropolises. If businesses spread out, people could too.
Exactly this. Culturally they are locked in behavior from the industrialization phase of last century, where people moved to the cities for work. There's no opportunities in the country. So when you want to start a career or go to university you move to Tokyo or another big city. It's just what you're expected to do.
What I've always thought might prevent that and improve productivity would be a shift away from megacorporations and towards incentivizing small businesses. Japan's corps are too big to fail and exhibit the rot that all large institutions are experiencing these days. People should be encouraged to start a business in their hometown and add opportunities for people there. Unfortunately they don't tend to exhibit the same ambition or tolerance for risk needed to become entrepreneurs that Americans have. There is also a weird socialist/Malthusian streak in them where they don't like to see huge income disparities. When someone looks "too rich" they want them to be taxed heavily.
Make hard work pay off? Which is the last thing they intend to do. I've watched most of the best and brightest at my job burn out and leave bitter and angry. Management is actively advancing women/minorities of mediocre ability at their expense, and there's no better way to make someone stop caring about anything other than collecting a check than shitting on the most deserving.
It's communism plain and simple. Tell a room of students that their test results will be averaged, why would any of them bother studying? If you get 100, it gets redistributed to the shitheads who got a 0. Likewise why do anything more than write your name on the top and hand it in when your score will be averaged up?