economy
A headline caught my eye awhile ago:
Majority Of Canadians Think The Economy Is On The Wrong Track.
From the perspective of a long term blue collar Canadian worker; I wouldn't say that I believe the economy is on the wrong track. I also wouldn't say that I believe it is on the right track. What I would say, and believe, is that it is on the same track it has been on since long before I was even born.
Most of the wealth is funneled into the pockets of the ultra wealthy minority of the worldwide population. The majority of the population who do all the work, and keep buying all the things that keep the gears of the economy turning, are in a state of constant financial uncertainty. If you can't do work and buy things you get tossed out of society like a piece of garbage. These things keep getting worse as years pass by.
I feel like if my wages had kept up with inflation over the last few decades I would be earning, at the very least, double what I earn today. The cost of everything has been constantly going up since I started working over three decades ago. Blue collar wages have gone up, but compared to the cost of everything, they have barely gone up at all.
I'm no economist, but I can read, and it doesn't take too much reading to find things out about the disgusting wealth inequality between the high income earners and the rest of us, and about how much that gap is growing. If anyone ever finds a way to fix that long term ongoing abomination, that is causing most of the suffering in the world; then I might start to believe that the economy is on the right track.
The right blames the left, and the left blames the right. Then after all is said and done, more is said than done. Then in the end no one seems to care, and nothing changes. No one ever wants to put the blame where it belongs. Business as usual. The ultra wealthy wallow in their self serving delusions taking taking taking, governments serve the ultra wealthy, and the rest of us do all the work and don’t get much for it.
They put the hardware in our faces nearly every second we are awake and then install the software that turns the majority into victims of force fed lies, distractions and manipulation.