Generational Dynamics World View

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(09-25-2019, 02:33 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Her future looks bleak, but it has nothing to do with global warming, which has been happening for decades already.  Rather, it has to do with her government's willingness to let the elites import cheap labor to prevent her own upward mobility.

I notice patterns of global warming. It's late September here in Michigan and it still feels like summer. There has been no autumn chill yet... and it used to be around in half the days of late September.  September is still summer here. Even the leaves seem to be changing colors later. 

It might be nice to enjoy summer-like weather a little earlier and later, but I did see the expression "Michigan will be like Oklahoma if global warming goes as it seems headed". OK, Arkansas is worse because it is more humid...

If you want to know what is creating economic distress for the working class, then contemplate the consequences of a world without scarcity (except in things that can be monopolized). Karl Marx had it right when he said that the proletariat has nothing to sell but its labor... and a century and a half later that is true. The industrial proletariat fares well when people are buying innovative new manufactured goods. But when the technological marvels get cheap, so does the pay.

Upward mobility has practically disappeared for most Americans due to the diminishing presence of small business, the rise of bureaucratic elites in large (especially vertically-integrated) firms, and tax cuts that foster a profits-first economy. Figure that the leadership elite now in most executive positions got the MBA degree, or "Master of Brutal Administration".

Now, as for global warming:



       It looks like an exponential growth rate more than like a linear increase. 1.5C may not seem like much, but it is enough to shift some grain belts and extend the range of tropical diseases.