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In my humble opinion the Global Situation roughly is: -> 80 % Survival mode, Struggling to meet ends (The so-called 3rd World, mostly) -> 15 % Semi-Ok, Hired
by kds 15y ago
In my humble opinion the Global Situation roughly is:
-> 80 % Survival mode, Struggling to meet ends (The so-called 3rd World, mostly)
-> 15 % Semi-Ok, Hired hands in private and governmental institutions of various size (in-debted wage slaves, mostly)
-> 5 % Ok, successful business owners, top managers, political leaders, rich and super-rich (various business sizes, amounts, market caps, etc... imagine any metric indicating financial and social success)
If this picture is mostly right => Perhaps, the really useless work isn't something which is rightly measured as the global number of humans busy with it.
- bborud 15y agoI believe your estimates are overly optimistic. Then again, if you look at just the US, there is a huge gap between how people think wealth is distributed and reality. The distribution is only going to get worse. I don't see the 0.1% at the top suddenly growing altruistic -- nor do I think any sort of political disruption can change this tendency in the long term. Such disruptions now seem to, more often than not, result in more assets being secured by those of means. Whatever illusions of a democratic and fair society the 1900s instilled in us are just that: illusions. I predict that within my lifetime western society will indeed continue a trend towards the sci-fi predicions of the privately owned corporate state. To a large degree, this is already reality.