Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
This is going to be a long-ass post. But before I get into that, I feel like I need to qualify myself. In addition to qualifying, I have a weird cross-section of experiences and people that I've met and/or befriended. I know career criminals, I know millionaires/met billionaires, even have someone very well known in my immediate family that you see on TV daily. I'm a 40 year old black man from PA. Born in the burbs of Philly, then moved to the hood at 12, West Philly. I was a nerdy young bul, so I gravitated to your typical nerd shyt. I grew up playing football, playing with legos and video games, and graduating to building computers and dabbling in music. I have my undergrad in broadcasting/mass media/journalism. Masters degree in business administration. Broadcasting/music didn't give me a livable wage, so I shifted to running warehouses. I have been in supply chain for 15 years, depending on how I want to count. And some of those warehouses were in some of the most trailer park backwater pieces of shyt in this entire country; Maxton NC, Paris TX, Fremont OH, Beaver Dam WI, Watertown NY, Oregon, Idaho, you name it.
Recently, I made the shift to public relations and marketing strategy. I study demographics and what appeals to those demographics and work with PR and advertising firms to market products to consumers.
I've been saying on here that since 2021, Trump could potentially rise again because I know the archetype that votes for him. It was mocked, laughed at, derided. I know it, because I've been around it for most of my life; white, hispanic, and black, low information voters. I don't say that as a diss. I say that because low information voters don't vote off of policy because it's too complicated for them to follow. They vote off of vibes and what they tangibly can grasp; the price of eggs, gas, a person's race/gender, and tranny shyt.
Kamala failed because she not only tied herself to a widely unpopular Biden administration even after he stepped down, but she didn't really make much of an attempt to show who she was a person. The few attempts she did, it came off ininauthentic. In the end, this really shouldn't even fukking matter, but a reoccurring theme you'll see with my more serious posts is the division of what's ideal and what's real. Pair that up with her being a black and Indian woman, and Biden handicapping any good work she could have done by saying he wanted a woman of color as his running mate. DEI, affirmative action, and anything that resembles it, is all but done.
But the democrats honestly lost before Biden even became president. Growing up, democrats were viewed as the party of blue color folks. But that shifted when Bill Clinton signed NAFTA. I know NAFTA wasn't the first step. It just formalized globalization in writing. I think there was an assumption and a hope by democrats that higher education jobs would fill the void of those blue color roles that were being outsourced and would be replaced by higher paying white color roles. And for a time it did, because it was rammed down our throat college was the goal. The reason the US has been so dominant for 150+ years is because we pioneer EVERY new industry that usually goes hand-in-hand with higher education. But because our education system is so broken, we have generations of people who really aren't educated enough to move into higher education to fill those roles. As a result, wage growth began to stagnate and get to the place where we're at today.
Our technological progress is butting up against our ability as humans to adapt. We're all very adaptable species, but the rate of that change is starting to occur faster than our ability to adapt. And AI is only going to make this worse.
Any developed economy that experiences a stagnation in wage growth, will start to shift the blame for that wage growth on other culprits, if it is a multi-demographic society; the Asians and Hispanics are taking our jobs. The fact of the matter is, we don't want $8 an hour cleaning jobs or $25 for a pack of strawberries. We need new industries. In a capitalist society, innovation has to outpace normalization or growth will slow down and quality of life will slow down. We really haven't put the investments in new industries or even built the infrastructure for new industries in quite some time.
Recently, I made the shift to public relations and marketing strategy. I study demographics and what appeals to those demographics and work with PR and advertising firms to market products to consumers.
I've been saying on here that since 2021, Trump could potentially rise again because I know the archetype that votes for him. It was mocked, laughed at, derided. I know it, because I've been around it for most of my life; white, hispanic, and black, low information voters. I don't say that as a diss. I say that because low information voters don't vote off of policy because it's too complicated for them to follow. They vote off of vibes and what they tangibly can grasp; the price of eggs, gas, a person's race/gender, and tranny shyt.
Kamala failed because she not only tied herself to a widely unpopular Biden administration even after he stepped down, but she didn't really make much of an attempt to show who she was a person. The few attempts she did, it came off ininauthentic. In the end, this really shouldn't even fukking matter, but a reoccurring theme you'll see with my more serious posts is the division of what's ideal and what's real. Pair that up with her being a black and Indian woman, and Biden handicapping any good work she could have done by saying he wanted a woman of color as his running mate. DEI, affirmative action, and anything that resembles it, is all but done.
But the democrats honestly lost before Biden even became president. Growing up, democrats were viewed as the party of blue color folks. But that shifted when Bill Clinton signed NAFTA. I know NAFTA wasn't the first step. It just formalized globalization in writing. I think there was an assumption and a hope by democrats that higher education jobs would fill the void of those blue color roles that were being outsourced and would be replaced by higher paying white color roles. And for a time it did, because it was rammed down our throat college was the goal. The reason the US has been so dominant for 150+ years is because we pioneer EVERY new industry that usually goes hand-in-hand with higher education. But because our education system is so broken, we have generations of people who really aren't educated enough to move into higher education to fill those roles. As a result, wage growth began to stagnate and get to the place where we're at today.
Our technological progress is butting up against our ability as humans to adapt. We're all very adaptable species, but the rate of that change is starting to occur faster than our ability to adapt. And AI is only going to make this worse.
Any developed economy that experiences a stagnation in wage growth, will start to shift the blame for that wage growth on other culprits, if it is a multi-demographic society; the Asians and Hispanics are taking our jobs. The fact of the matter is, we don't want $8 an hour cleaning jobs or $25 for a pack of strawberries. We need new industries. In a capitalist society, innovation has to outpace normalization or growth will slow down and quality of life will slow down. We really haven't put the investments in new industries or even built the infrastructure for new industries in quite some time.
Breh I'll get back with you on that. Me just waking up and drowning in words. Need coffee and leaf intake for this 3 hour movie
