"This time it's happening to white people (gasp!)" (lol) Yes, that is correct, but it was always happening to them, simply not in a forceful enough manner for t

"This time it's happening to white people (gasp!)" (lol) Yes, that is correct, but it was always happening to them, simply not in a forceful enough manner for them to counteract the counter-messaging that told/tells them how exceptional they are. Anyone who is actually interested in understanding American class dynamics should look at the history of the social CONSTRUCT of race and "whiteness." Who was and wasn't "white" has always changed based on the needs of the uber-affluent to create a protective buffer between themselves and everyone else. (And this isn't exclusive to America. Similar dynamics have played out pretty much non-European area that Europeans 'civilized'.) Digging into immigration policy implementation and development a little can teach one much. Unfortunately, after having had so many years of being able to tell themselves that no matter their respective situations, at least they weren't N-----s, it is incredibly difficult to convince certain people to conduct an objective review of facts. At its 'settling' what was to be America broke down between those who owned stuff and those who would work for them, period. As I said above, once the numbers got a little hairy for the owners, the workers were broken into groups. Workforce and union membership expands to excluded groups as market needs change, i.e. as one group of workers becomes too expansive for employers and/or union membership flags among the initiated... As automation progresses there is less need for any of the people and as such, I believe we end up where we are today. Anyway, I only logged in to ask you (and other sharing your sentiment) how you'd feel about working for $15k a year? I'm in D.C. and recently attended an event at which an 'educated' person working for a big name think tank floated such jobs as a solution to all this angst (particularly among the downtrodden "white" people, since, after Trump's election and all, they are the focus group du jour).