Comparisons to yesteryear.

Hands up those who can remember the 70s...
I can...
I had a good job...worked 5 days a week, had three kids....my wife was
a stay at home mum...
She got the kids off to the school which was about 400 yards down the road.
We had a dog a cat a budgie and six goldfish...
The bank gave us a fixed interest mortgage for 15 years and our house was
only 7 years old...
We bought it for 24 grand...
Fast forward to today...
Whats happened....
Nowadays...both parents have to work...thats ten days a week...
The house I bought then is now priced at nearly 500 grand
I look around and see "debt slaves" who bust their arses for 40/50 hours
a week just to put food on the table for their kids whilst everything costs
an arm and a leg and keeps going up....
Is this living in a democracy...
Is this just caused by inflation...
Something is very very wrong with humanity for everyone to just
put up with this crap because its "normalized behaviour"
I glad Im 74...
I feel very sorry for the young....

Of course the blatant question could be asked...
How could any family survive these days if hubby
just worked 5 days a week...with no other income....
Thats an impossibility....
We are all living on a crazy train....
And its got no brakes....

billy the kid wrote:Of course the blatant question could be asked...
How could any family survive these days if hubby
just worked 5 days a week...with no other income....
Thats an impossibility....
We are all living on a crazy train....
And its got no brakes....

Real-estate prices are the biggest issue , if housing was a reasonable price it wouldn't be a problem , The gov here are giving $350 dollars to anyone that earned un 70k the last financial year, I missed out on it and I have only been working 3 days a week for the last six months

we only have a 150k mortgage so no problem surviving , try servicing a 900k mortgage with rising interest rates

billy the kid wrote:Hands up those who can remember the 70s...
I can...
I had a good job...worked 5 days a week, had three kids....my wife was
a stay at home mum...
She got the kids off to the school which was about 400 yards down the road.
We had a dog a cat a budgie and six goldfish...
The bank gave us a fixed interest mortgage for 15 years and our house was
only 7 years old...
We bought it for 24 grand...
Fast forward to today...
Whats happened....
Nowadays...both parents have to work...thats ten days a week...
The house I bought then is now priced at nearly 500 grand
I look around and see "debt slaves" who bust their arses for 40/50 hours
a week just to put food on the table for their kids whilst everything costs
an arm and a leg and keeps going up....
Is this living in a democracy...
Is this just caused by inflation...
Something is very very wrong with humanity for everyone to just
put up with this crap because its "normalized behaviour"
I glad Im 74...
I feel very sorry for the young....

The point I was trying to make is this...
Back in the day...
Dad was supposed to go to work to pay the bills...
Mum  was supposed to stay at home and look after the kids...
Add a few etceteras to each person....
Kids were supposed to be loved, nurtured and cared for by both parents.
These days, kids (immediately after birth) are dumped at the child care centre at 7am..stay there
all day..and when they reach school age, special facilities are created for
kids to be baby sitted (after school) until they are picked up by either mum or dad after work.
Some kids are even sent to school without a breakfast in their stomachs.
This is not what humanity was supposed to be...
Women have to go to work to help pay the bills.
Governments create child care facilities to assist women to get back into
the work force.
They then vote for the government which provides them a possibility of
securing an income.
Meanwhile the cost of housing (aka the Oz Real Estate Ponzi Scheme)
goes up and up...
This is not how it was supposed to be...
Blind Freddie can see that this cant continue...
Something has to crack...
Either that or the crazy train without brakes runs off the track....

billy the kid wrote:Hands up those who can remember the 70s...
I can...
I had a good job...worked 5 days a week, had three kids....my wife was
a stay at home mum...
She got the kids off to the school which was about 400 yards down the road.
We had a dog a cat a budgie and six goldfish...
The bank gave us a fixed interest mortgage for 15 years and our house was
only 7 years old...
We bought it for 24 grand...
Fast forward to today...
Whats happened....
Nowadays...both parents have to work...thats ten days a week...
The house I bought then is now priced at nearly 500 grand
I look around and see "debt slaves" who bust their arses for 40/50 hours
a week just to put food on the table for their kids whilst everything costs
an arm and a leg and keeps going up....
Is this living in a democracy...
Is this just caused by inflation...
Something is very very wrong with humanity for everyone to just
put up with this crap because its "normalized behaviour"
I glad Im 74...
I feel very sorry for the young....

The Elites destroyed society.

They destroyed our money - by money-printing, after moving the Dollar off a gold standard.

They destroyed the labor market - by their operatives, the Women's Libbers, agitating for housewives to enter into the workforce. You double the supply of something, the price goes DOWN. That includes labor.

WHILE they did that, the Political Elites were printing money like mad. So no one saw their wages go down - just prices go UP.

Later, credit was loosened. The Elites knew that they could postpone rage if they allowed the public to become debt slaves, and still live as they had 20 years earlier, paying for it with wages.

So most people went DEEPLY into debt.

WHILE this was going on, plans were made to move whole industries into cheaper places. Now, that's a natural trend - since shipping became practical in the 20th century, we had goods manufactured in cheaper places. Or places of higher quality. We got tea from India; we got expensive chocolate and watches from Switzerland. After WWII, Japan was a place where skilled workers would work for a pittance - and we got, first toys and trinkets, then cameras and precision instruments, from there. And, finally, electronics and automobiles.

And as that happened, Japanese companies found they could raise prices - to where it cost MORE, not less, to buy in Japan. Better manufacturing.

The heads of industry started searching, again. Remember the Yugo? Malcolm Bricklin's attempt to use Communist Yugoslavia as a labor source. It failed.

Ten years later, China went somewhat better. Electronic gear was coming from there, from the early 1990s. By this time, quality wasn't a concern.

The roots of Globalism were sewn.

American, and Western, industries shriveled. I lived in Buffalo, NY, when Bethlehem Steel's last plant, in Lackawanna, a Buffalo suburb, closed up in bankruptcy. This, when the economy was expanding rapidly. Between government regulations, militant labor, laws PROTECTING militant unions and their demands...Bethlehem couldn't make money. They knew that for 25 years prior; so they stopped capital investments. The plants became obsolete and then wildly so; and when they finally couldn't pay operating expenses, even with no capital reinvestment...they shut down and liquidated.

There went more middle-class jobs. The EPA working in hand with United Steelworkers...destroying jobs.

This is not democracy. It's a PARODY of democracy - it's kleptocracy, and oligarchy, and fascism, all rolled up into one, using the veneer of democracy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/widespread-civil-unrest-looming-uk-over-cost-living-crisis
From the link:
1 out of 2 brits think there will be riots later this year...
I never thought Id see the day where a movement commences
encouraging everyone to refuse to pay their bills...
This is the commencement of anarchy...

billy the kid wrote:https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/widespread-civil-unrest-looming-uk-over-cost-living-crisis
From the link:
1 out of 2 brits think there will be riots later this year...
I never thought Id see the day where a movement commences
encouraging everyone to refuse to pay their bills...
This is the commencement of anarchy...

Commencement of extermination.

I saw a Ewww Toob vid of Jordan Peterson interviewing Michael Yon, the war correspondent. Yon is ex-military and now is watching the engineered famine unfold. He told Peterson that he expects the food to run out, throughout the West, from September. In the poor pockets, first - Sri Lanka was the canary in our Woke mine. Sri Lanka always had enough food - until this year.

The aim here is to create mass migration and flight, into the developed West - overwhelming them. Then to have the invaders as human wrecking balls, burning, rioting - and starving, and eating food that had been stored FOR Europeans or Americans.

Twofold aim - abolition of national borders, and remove over 9/10ths of humanity.

Here we go....