They replaced us with machines; paid us much less than our worth; shipped our jobs off to other countries; forced to pay with hard-earned money what was not owed, then they squandered it -- and on top of it all workers were treated like slaves. Isn’t it only fair that we the people finally have the means in which to replace them?
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution workers have been replaced by machines and technology. It seems that these benefits should have “trickled down” to all workers to make it possible to suffer less, work less, have more left over, and earn more. But on the most part the benefits of technology have gone to the ultra-rich. The benefits have only trickled down when the poor and middle classes have bled and died to get things to change.
The Great Depression of the late twenties, which was engineered by the bankers and the ultra-rich, caused untold suffering to the common people – including women, children, the elderly and poor. The rich company owners made slaves out of people by forcing them to do hard labor for less and less pay until finally unions were created and the people rebelled and fought back.
The rebellion was bloody and many died for fair pay and working conditions. All this led to the creation of laws that made the 40 hour work week and minimum wage compulsory, programs like social security, unemployment benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, disability, and so on. And this has all been created with the hard-earned money that workers have gotten by trading hours of their lives for pieces of paper that are only worth what we are told it is worth.
But these benefits are not welfare, all this is mostly made possible by the money that is extracted from hard-earned paychecks. And even though these are benefits that rightfully belong to the working man, there are all of these stipulations that are attached to be able to qualify for what is rightfully theirs. The worker is entitled to these programs since these programs are created with their money, that’s why they are called entitlements.
However, it seems that the word entitlement has mostly been replaced by benefits. Having benefits almost sounds more like being “privileged” to receive them instead of being entitled to them, instead of having them as a right. Nowadays, the money that is taken out of paychecks and placed into special accounts for the protection of our futures, is borrowed with interest and the interest is paid back with income tax!
Unfair control and manipulation over peoples’ hard-earned money has been wielded by centralized banks, the Federal Reserve and the government for many years. Because of the greed of the rich, and the mismanagement of the nation’s money the Dollar is almost worth nothing, the middle class is disappearing and the poor class is growing. Basically because of the ultra-rich, the bankers and the government the Dollar is headed for an inevitable crash. Many of those who insist on holding onto faith in the almighty Dollar will in the very near future become nearly broke almost overnight.
Because of the mismanagement of funds and the all printing of valueless currency anytime they need money for whatever they need it for, the value of the Dollar is sharply declining and the cost of living is going up. But the wages of the poor worker stay the same and almost none of the economic benefits have trickled down from the top. What about jobs in the sectors of new technologies? Those jobs are mostly now in other countries... and the US? Most workers of those workers are still stuck in jobs related to coal and petroleum.
Is history beginning to repeat itself? Are we seeing the fall of the Dollar and the rise of Bitcoin and the Blockchain? Countries all over the globe are tired of being bullied by the US and the almighty Petrodollar which has made the US enjoy super low gas prices. But once petroleum prices are replaced by a currency other than the Petrodollar, gas and diesel prices will skyrocket. When gas and diesel prices go up in the US so do food prices and everything else. But do you think wages will go up? Nope.
What has happened recently in other countries where there is economic unrest? People start losing faith in their governments’ fiat currencies and start investing in other things such as gold, silver, real estate and yes, Cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin just a few years ago was thought of as just a new fad, then it was a bubble that would soon pop, then it was a big scam. Well now centralized banks are really afraid of it -- there is a serious chance that the Blockchain will replace them. Bitcoin is worldwide and countries are beginning to really take it seriously. Important people of the world are now saying that Bitcoin is here to stay and not going away.
In some countries the price of Bitcoin has gone way up because people are afraid of rampant, runaway inflation that would destroy their meager savings. And more and more people buying Bitcoin is what has driven up its value, contrary to the way the Dollar has been controlled and manipulated by the Feds. With Bitcoin it is the people who are deciding what it’s worth and not the government.
We are seeing economic power returning to the hands of the common people. The problem has always been the middleman who is always there to make money off of others. But with the Blockchain, the middleman will go away and no longer be able to explore people of their hard-earned cash. Middlemen will simply become unneeded. The great disrupter, Bitcoin, will return the wealth to the people where it belongs, people will slowly be able to do what they want to do instead of being slaves in order just to survive. Hopefully the rich will no longer be able to enslave and abuse workers and government will return to what they were supposed to be doing all along – serving the people.
