So, I did that cringey late night rant about how voters are stupid when going over polling suggesting they wanted work requirements on the CTC. I won't say that this is flat out wrong, but the polls and focus groups were made by literal right wingers, and polled demographics that generally lean to the right.
How do I interpret this now, almost 24 hours later? Well I'll say this. The voters are wrong, but they're wrong because they have seemingly nonsensical and contradictory worldviews that lead to their suffering. You can't be for means testing and work requirements, while simultaneously complaining about how hard everything is and clearly wanting improvement.
The fact is, if you advocate for work requirements and means testing and limitations, you're contributing to a system that doesnt work for you. If you wanna know why it's so hard to get help and middle class people dont get any, it's because of this. Welfare is designed only for the poor. And only for the so called deserving poor. It limits people who want help but are either too well off (most lower middle class/working class households are in this group), or it excludes people for not fitting certain requirements.
As for the topic of work and jobs. The reason why capitalism sucks is because of that fixation on work and jobs. You cant have it both ways. What is a job? What is a job creator? How does trickle down economics work? I'll tell you how. it's rich people paying poor people to do work for them. And most businesses don't want to pay for work. They want workers to do the most work, while paying them the least amount of money. And that's the core problem with capitalism and America in a nutshell. Jobs dont pay. Work doesnt pay. Because businesses dont wanna pay people. They want cheap labor, they want slaves. They want to work you as hard as possible, for the least amount of money, and throw you away when they're done. And that's the reality of the system as it exists. Period.
And until you're willing to break away from that mindset, you're gonna suffer. If you want to make america great again, you gotta go back to the new deal. And the new deal, in the trickle down sense, was more pinata economics. You hit the pinata until the candy comes out. You tax the rich and put regulations on them, and unionize, in order to make the money trickle down. it doesnt happen on its own. It happens because we make it happen.
Even then, as people point out, sometimes this leads to businesses hiring fewer people, or moving jobs overseas, or raising prices, and yeah, you can't really win. The fact is, the work paradigm is never gonna give us shared prosperity for all. And it never did. Even in the late 1960s, the Nixon administration was putting out reports pointing this out, and saying we needed a UBI to fill in the gap.
The CTC was like a small taste of UBI for kids. And if you guys wanna oppose that because you're fixated on making sure people earn it, well, you can learn to suffer with the economic hellscape that we got. I am of the opinion people shouldnt be forced to work. Not only do I think the idea that we force people to work is unnecessary and cruel, but it actually undermines the market in favor of employers. You realize the reason the economy sucks as bad as it does is because the amount of jobs will always outnumber the amount of workers available? If you dont have that, you get inflation, which is one of the reasons the right claims inflation happened (that isn't really why, but the right claims it was). So basically....you are always gonna have poor people, you're always gonna have underemployment. Youre always gonna have precarity, and the crappy system is never gonna get better as long as we stick to the way things are.
You may not realize it, but in conventional job creation terms, the Biden economy is precisely what every conservative leaner claims they want. Unemployment is down, inflation is relatively down. The economy is stable, and yet, tons of people live in poverty and precarity, and we're complaining about the price of everything. I could've told you this 10 years ago, but no one wants to listen. There is no mythical perfect economy that lasts more than a few years at a time. And this is the best it will ever get.
And pre covid, 2019, another "this is the best it will ever get". Btw, trump didnt do that, obama did, it just took a literal decade of uninterrupted growth for things to get that good. But that is as good as it will ever get. Ya know? Minus covid, this is as good as it gets. And yall aint happy. Gee, I wonder why? maybe our entire paradigm is broken? Maybe you should listen to me? Just saying. There is no perfect economy. This is the closest we get without a paradigm shift. And to actually accomplish better, we need government action. We need strong universal social programs. We need new deal 2.0. Been saying it for a decade again. You guys ready to listen yet? No? Then you can suffer with what we got. Btw, trump is gonna F everything up with his tariffs so i hope you guys are ready for that. I also hope you guys realize that yield curve inversion is looking pretty spicey and if it's any indication, we may be heading toward a large 2008 style recession some time in 2025 or 2026. Not 100% sure of that one, but that looks...problematic.
And yall just elected herbert hoover policy wise. Have fun.
Ya know. If you keep voting for crap, you're gonna get crap. You want change, you need a change candidate with an actual plan. You need a bernie sanders 2016, or an andrew yang 2020. You're not gonna get it from trump, you're not gonna get it from biden, you're not gonna get it from kamala harris. You need a LEFTIE willing to break the paradigm. Until you get that, have fun suffering. Because the system is the problem. Stop getting in the way of those who wanna make your lives better.
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