The Trump administration past: just about everybody in this administration has a college degree from an ivy league university, but it’s ok because we’re the ruling elite. It’s time we took those academic “elitists” down a peg or 2
The Trump administration present: You can wipe your ass with that degree and get a job working in a factory, like many of your parents did.
The Trump administration near future: The economy is still shit because we wrecked it, automated or outsourced everything we could, and put all our eggs into one shitty AI basket that didn’t pan out. Now there are way too many people with degrees competing for the few remaining jobs, most of which don’t require a degree.
Resources are becoming scarce, disease is rampant, American children are dying at an unprecedented rate, disasters can’t be prepared for because we fired all the people that did that, and we keep pushing policies that increase unplanned pregnancies. In short, shit sucks but is mostly just going according to the original plan.
All the immigrants have been rounded up and trafficked to El Salvador, so, who is left to act as the scapegoat for the ruling elite?
You know why things are so bad in the very near future, America?
“It’s because the educated elite were rewarded for so long for being fiscally irresponsible and went into debt over useless college degrees. Now they’re taking all the American jobs, they’re eating the cats and the dogs, and they are milking this once great country for all its worth.”
Now there are way too many people with degrees competing for the few remaining jobs
That’s honestly not the future I see going forward. The future I see is one where colleges begin to close en mass, foreign students stop coming to the US for high quality education, and educated professionals leave the country for lower cost of living and better amenities abroad.
Education, as an institution, becomes a series of high end social clubs on the high end and a bunch of debt-trap MLMs on the low end. Increasingly little is actually taught at any of these schools, and the only real purpose of the campuses is to organize upper-middle class failkids into the various regionalized ideological cults.
Meanwhile, the demand for real labor continues to decline with the falling birthrate and the enormous volume of legacy infrastructure that continues to need support. Efforts to extract labor by force, rather than by promise of higher quality of life, only result in deteriorating work quality. We become even more addicted to imports as our position as global financial hegemony melts away. And eventually, we go into the same kind of debt crisis that plagued Germany after WW1 and Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
All the immigrants have been rounded up and trafficked to El Salvador, so, who is left to act as the scapegoat for the ruling elite?
You’re never going to get “all the immigrants” because we’re a nation of immigrants.
The War on Immigration has better parallels with the War on Drugs. Lots of moving goalposts. Lots of propaganda as a stand in for policy. Lots of big splashy media pieces on how we’re “Losing” or “Winning” in dramatic fashion.
But the economic incentives don’t change. Consumer behaviors don’t really change. And mostly we create a giant Make Work system for thugs to harass people of color.
The Trump administration past: just about everybody in this administration has a college degree from an ivy league university, but it’s ok because we’re the ruling elite. It’s time we took those academic “elitists” down a peg or 2
The Trump administration present: You can wipe your ass with that degree and get a job working in a factory, like many of your parents did.
The Trump administration near future: The economy is still shit because we wrecked it, automated or outsourced everything we could, and put all our eggs into one shitty AI basket that didn’t pan out. Now there are way too many people with degrees competing for the few remaining jobs, most of which don’t require a degree.
Resources are becoming scarce, disease is rampant, American children are dying at an unprecedented rate, disasters can’t be prepared for because we fired all the people that did that, and we keep pushing policies that increase unplanned pregnancies. In short, shit sucks but is mostly just going according to the original plan.
All the immigrants have been rounded up and trafficked to El Salvador, so, who is left to act as the scapegoat for the ruling elite?
You know why things are so bad in the very near future, America?
“It’s because the educated elite were rewarded for so long for being fiscally irresponsible and went into debt over useless college degrees. Now they’re taking all the American jobs, they’re eating the cats and the dogs, and they are milking this once great country for all its worth.”
That’s honestly not the future I see going forward. The future I see is one where colleges begin to close en mass, foreign students stop coming to the US for high quality education, and educated professionals leave the country for lower cost of living and better amenities abroad.
Education, as an institution, becomes a series of high end social clubs on the high end and a bunch of debt-trap MLMs on the low end. Increasingly little is actually taught at any of these schools, and the only real purpose of the campuses is to organize upper-middle class failkids into the various regionalized ideological cults.
Meanwhile, the demand for real labor continues to decline with the falling birthrate and the enormous volume of legacy infrastructure that continues to need support. Efforts to extract labor by force, rather than by promise of higher quality of life, only result in deteriorating work quality. We become even more addicted to imports as our position as global financial hegemony melts away. And eventually, we go into the same kind of debt crisis that plagued Germany after WW1 and Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
You’re never going to get “all the immigrants” because we’re a nation of immigrants.
The War on Immigration has better parallels with the War on Drugs. Lots of moving goalposts. Lots of propaganda as a stand in for policy. Lots of big splashy media pieces on how we’re “Losing” or “Winning” in dramatic fashion.
But the economic incentives don’t change. Consumer behaviors don’t really change. And mostly we create a giant Make Work system for thugs to harass people of color.
Sounds like you’re thinking of a way future. I’m not entirely sure we make it that far.