The Pundits Advise and the People Feel Despised

I ran across a subtitle of a book which ran, "how to live in the new economy" [italics mine]. I will not reveal the main title -- I have no specific beef with this accommodationist author, but there are so many books on the same theme that have some variation of this same subtitle. It is nauseating. So what is this thing all these pragmatic financial and career advisors are talking about? Well, it is an economy that is certainly "economic" in its use of people: no employment for many, poor pay for most, lavish pay for some, parasitic profits for the few. Such a system is neither "livable" (in the human sense), nor even "new" (in the historical sense). In terms of the latter, it looks like the preliminary stage to slavocracy. Ancient Rome went through this transition when it passed from a simple republic to an acquisitive empire. By a more modern comparison, it also looks like the Land of Opportunity is morphing into a Third World social pyramid. What we must be clear about is that this new economy is not based on any form of necessity: there are so many resources that simply aren't being shared, but they want you to think it has to do with population increase. The economy we are now experiencing in America is actually a massive political indulgence of greed, and a full ratification of plutocratic arrogance. Thankfully, more and more Americans are standing up and saying that they will refuse to "live" in this "new" economy. These awakening Americans reject the might over right "legitimacy" of its very precept: wealth against the common weal. The world the elite are packaging for us makes a mockery of the Declaration of Independence's phrase "the pursuit of happiness". In fact, our sordidly New Gilded Age is downright anti-democratic. It is the connivance of a cabal of warmongers, sweatshop outsourcers, fossil fuel magnates, and peddlers of instantly obsolescent gimcrack merchandise. The deceivers have gotten an amazing amount of mileage by claiming that they're doing it all for "God" and the "Bible". But even among the blindly faithful, such lies will no longer work as the uncounted jobless and the underemployed face the desert these pundits know their abettors really have planned for us. If there is a God, He or She will want an Eden for the little people of this world, but the unimaginative rich don't create anything like that -- not even for themselves.