Thinking about this Carlin quote on the eve of losing my healthcare and being forced back out into the workforce to compete over jobs that aren't there anymore:

"But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians."

People don't vote for candidates to make life better, they vote for stopgaps to make it stop from getting worse. Harris was the stopgap candidate, she was merely going to clot the bleeding.

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Was she? Seems to me project 2025 was slowly being implemented under Biden and Harris would likely have stepped it up. I don't think she would have ripped things up with as much urgency and showmanship as Trump, but her bloodthirst and desire to satisfy Capital still shouldn't be underestimated. "Forget the politicians."
- I mean I agree, it was going to get bad no matter what, but like you said not with this much urgency. I guess we were fucked from the jump.
Every time I am more than happy to try to meet porky halfway?
“You shouldn’t get something for nothing!”
Ok fair enough, now I would like to work so I can earn money and pay for my healthcare and housing.
“No, not hiring!”
- I really have no desire to pimp myself out for $7.25 an hour when Elon goons all day and make MILLIONS an hour.
i had this thought too when i learned that i would have to accept a job with a 66% paycut just to keep the insurance going.
carlin didn't say anything new and this struggle has been going on for generations and i wish i understood why people don't try change.
- Alot of people dont realize almost all the good things we have today (worker's rights, weekends, severance etc.) are from workers organizing and dying while fighting for these rights. The government gave concessions because of this and through alot of propaganda and union leaders being traitors, they have distorted this past so that the common person remains passive and even antagonistic to better working conditions
  
  Honorable mention to the existence of the USSR and its constant threat of inspiring Bolshevik revolution in capitalist countries as well
- and i wish i understood why people don't try change.
  No money in that.
Everytime you have useful idiots asking how you gonna pay for it. Motherfucker post 9/11 wars could add up to 6-8 trillion how you paying for that?
The jobs are there, they just aren't nice jobs.
I entered the workforce shortly after losing a healthcare provision a handful of years ago, and one thing I had to come to terms with was that I no longer had a shiny career escalator to step onto, no fast track to affluence.
This was actually liberating, though, because I was able to say that I was fully self-driven, building myself from the bottom up, and I got to deconstruct the "you have a special and privileged seat in society" mentality that my liberal upbringing gave me. Mao was right that manual labor is a source of realism and class consciousness.
Later on, I was able to connect the dots in retrospect, and realize that I ended up understanding the economy way more accurately than the PMC types who were my peers growing up. And beyond that, through mixing together a solid high school math foundation, a couple business classes from junior college, and some socialist theory, I ended up with an ability to analyze businesses through labor and material inputs/outputs, to identify how inefficient they were. Not that I think anyone would hire me as a consultant, but being able to see the weak points of a capitalist apparatus is exhilarating.
There is definitely a future in economic subversion, where the lazy despondent capitalists leave enough slack for their workers to find out what's going on under the hood, and then duplicate the business model to ruthlessly undercut their former masters.
Best is when have good insurance and they still refuse to cover the meds wife needs. just use the manufacturer program to let them pay for the drug we refuse to cover.
Okay let me go do that, oh just make over the cut off for the program.... Guess she just won't get meds she needs because no one not making millions can afford $1200 a month prescription.

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