If a new law targets “terrorism” in any way, the actual goal of that law to to oppress someone.
Examples:
- loads of laws worldwide that expand snooping powers over normal citizens.
- loads of laws everywhere to curb financing “terrorism” and “crime”.
- loads of laws in many country allowing to detain people without or with greatly reduced due process.
Amazingly, those laws never manage to reduce terrorism in a noticeable way. But although they could be used for these purposes, they somehow also completely fail to engage with corruption, tax evasion and money laundering done by the rich and influential. They still set up anonymous foundations who own their mega-villas and yachts, they still set up companies in tax heavens to avoid paying their dues in their homeland.
This sucks. It seems like this has a good chance of getting passed and signed into law next year if it does get blocked this year. The mainstream media was already against the pro-Palestinian movement. It’s going to be hard to protest if every organization thinks they are going to be labeled a terrorist supporter by association and lose their tax exempt status.
I would say this is like a Red Scare or a war on terror, but it’s more of Republicans controlling every aspect of society. When they said small government, they meant we, the citizens, were all going to have pay for everything directly. And tough luck if you can’t afford any of it.
When they said small government, they meant we, the citizens, were all going to have pay for everything directly.
or, more specifically, the working class
Everyone will still have to pay no matter how rich they are. The owner class and certain high skill workers like doctors, surgeons, lawyers, judges, engineers, military generals, etc will be the only ones who can afford anything worthwhile like an education or medical treatment. The working class will mostly get to work in manual labor that isn’t easy to automate until they die from a preventable illness. However, in that scenario, that state of affairs probably won’t last long. Climate change is probably going to get us sooner rather than later and the billionaires will retreat to their apocalypse bunkers.
True, but when the cost of living is regressive, the working class is going to feel it more – a lot more.
Yeah, for most of the working class, money will be a constant struggle to make ends meet. For the rich, money will be an id card, a hall pass, or arcade tickets, proof that you belong and deserve your place in the hierarchy. The extraction of value from the workers’ labor will of course be how society will have anything for the owner class to benefit from and enjoy.
People won’t see the difference from today clearly though. Americans will say they are doing everything right, but they can’t seem to make a living. The media will say the economy’s great but it’s not lifting all boats. People will be accused of not wanting to work when all they do is work.
Generations of young people will probably inherent or be given smart devices from past generations, so they’ll have picked up how to text. For many people, education might be limited to what you can learn through your monthly free tokens for AI generated responses to questions. There will be cool brain chips to download lessons for private school students, so there is that.
