06-09-2016, 03:06 PM
I would suggest that in the past, concerns of how the 'lowly' were managing to deal with their lot was something
that the 'Elite' would barely raised an eyebrow over. But now due the globalising effect of enterprise, streamlined
manufacturing and the need for social conformity, it's become an issue.
The mass-killings of the Nazi death-camps are still not vogue and anyway, who's gonna stir my martini?
On the back of that, what about cannon-fodder, heh...? It's not like the breakaway society and the Uber-Elite will
resign themselves to donning such terrible clothes as uniforms and fight for a debatable civic duty!
So it looks like we need to talk about chatel.
(UK)
'...The analysis of the results of the Great British Class Survey of 2013, a collaboration between the BBC
and researchers from several UK universities, contended there is a new model of class structure consisting
of seven classes, ranging from the Elite at the top to the Precariat at the bottom.
The Precariat class was envisaged as “the most deprived British class of all with low levels of economic,
cultural and social capital” and the opposite of “the Technical Middle Class” in Great Britain in that instead
of having money but no interests, people of the new Precariat Class have all sorts of potential activities they
like to engage in but cannot do any of them because they have no money, insecure lives, and are usually
trapped in old industrial parts of the country...'
(Precariat -Wikipedia)
(USA)
'...Fifty percent of Americans over 65 believe America stands above all others as the greatest nation on earth.
Only 27 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 believe that. As late as 2003, Americans were more likely than
Italians, Brits and Germans to say the “free market economy is the best system on which to base the future of
the world.” By 2010, they were slightly less likely than those Europeans to embrace capitalism.
Thirty years ago, a vast majority of Americans identified as members of the middle class.
But since 1988, the percentage of Americans who call themselves members of the “have-nots” has doubled.
Today’s young people are more likely to believe success is a matter of luck, not effort, than earlier generations.
These pessimistic views bring to mind a concept that’s been floating around Europe: the Precariat.
According to the British academic Guy Standing, the Precariat is the growing class of people living with short
-term and part-time work with precarious living standards and “without a narrative of occupational development.”
They live with multiple forms of insecurity and are liable to join protest movements across the political spectrum.
The American Precariat seems more hunkered down, insecure, risk averse, relying on friends and family but
without faith in American possibilities. This fatalism is historically uncharacteristic of America.
No one response is going to reverse the trend, but Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute believes
government should offer moving vouchers to the long-term unemployed so they can chase opportunity.
If we could induce more people to Go West! (or South, East or North) in search of opportunity, maybe the old
future-oriented mind-set would return...'
SOURCE:
Some may see this as a middle stage of the movement from 'Payment For Labour' towards the a 'Nanny-State'
-type effect where those who have failed or been failed by the system that is supposed to be there to assist them,
is now at the mercy of those they perceive as their betters.
Conspiracy buffs may say that 'the writing is on the wall' for those who are of an ilk to go further and do better are
coming to realise that the supposed 'unhappy' majority of their fellow-species could be seen as a dead-weight,
a drag on humanity's future and that it may be time to push the lifeless avoirdupois body from the boat.
Damn you Orwell!
that the 'Elite' would barely raised an eyebrow over. But now due the globalising effect of enterprise, streamlined
manufacturing and the need for social conformity, it's become an issue.
The mass-killings of the Nazi death-camps are still not vogue and anyway, who's gonna stir my martini?
On the back of that, what about cannon-fodder, heh...? It's not like the breakaway society and the Uber-Elite will
resign themselves to donning such terrible clothes as uniforms and fight for a debatable civic duty!
So it looks like we need to talk about chatel.
(UK)
'...The analysis of the results of the Great British Class Survey of 2013, a collaboration between the BBC
and researchers from several UK universities, contended there is a new model of class structure consisting
of seven classes, ranging from the Elite at the top to the Precariat at the bottom.
The Precariat class was envisaged as “the most deprived British class of all with low levels of economic,
cultural and social capital” and the opposite of “the Technical Middle Class” in Great Britain in that instead
of having money but no interests, people of the new Precariat Class have all sorts of potential activities they
like to engage in but cannot do any of them because they have no money, insecure lives, and are usually
trapped in old industrial parts of the country...'
(Precariat -Wikipedia)
(USA)
'...Fifty percent of Americans over 65 believe America stands above all others as the greatest nation on earth.
Only 27 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 believe that. As late as 2003, Americans were more likely than
Italians, Brits and Germans to say the “free market economy is the best system on which to base the future of
the world.” By 2010, they were slightly less likely than those Europeans to embrace capitalism.
Thirty years ago, a vast majority of Americans identified as members of the middle class.
But since 1988, the percentage of Americans who call themselves members of the “have-nots” has doubled.
Today’s young people are more likely to believe success is a matter of luck, not effort, than earlier generations.
These pessimistic views bring to mind a concept that’s been floating around Europe: the Precariat.
According to the British academic Guy Standing, the Precariat is the growing class of people living with short
-term and part-time work with precarious living standards and “without a narrative of occupational development.”
They live with multiple forms of insecurity and are liable to join protest movements across the political spectrum.
The American Precariat seems more hunkered down, insecure, risk averse, relying on friends and family but
without faith in American possibilities. This fatalism is historically uncharacteristic of America.
No one response is going to reverse the trend, but Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute believes
government should offer moving vouchers to the long-term unemployed so they can chase opportunity.
If we could induce more people to Go West! (or South, East or North) in search of opportunity, maybe the old
future-oriented mind-set would return...'
SOURCE:
Some may see this as a middle stage of the movement from 'Payment For Labour' towards the a 'Nanny-State'
-type effect where those who have failed or been failed by the system that is supposed to be there to assist them,
is now at the mercy of those they perceive as their betters.
Conspiracy buffs may say that 'the writing is on the wall' for those who are of an ilk to go further and do better are
coming to realise that the supposed 'unhappy' majority of their fellow-species could be seen as a dead-weight,
a drag on humanity's future and that it may be time to push the lifeless avoirdupois body from the boat.
Damn you Orwell!
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