Not My Grandparent's Depression
In the third year of the 2008 Depression I'm watching the US wind down. The great experiment has failed and the country is becoming just another global shithole where most people struggle just to survive. But worse, there is no central culture that can sustain people under duress. Instead, everyone is like a bewildered foreigner stranded in some corrupt multicultural megalopolis.
Technology and systematic incompetence killed the US. As computers, cell phones and advanced manufacturing equipment were pushed into service, no one considered what excess workers would do to make a living. At the same time, people became disconnected from each other by technology. How can you care about or really know a person who is just another email or text message to act upon in your life?
At the same time, people have become data, title, education and experience to be evaluated and selected by computer. Candidates for employment, or even dating, are screened and selected by computer algorithms, not humans. The computer might find the perfect credentials of 4.0GPA, Operations Manager title, Six Sigma black belt experience yet have an incompetent jerk who couldn't manage a convenience store. Most people can't communicate well in person anymore so the interview fails to find the needed qualities. A jerk is hired who drives the enterprise into destruction while superior candidates become wards of the state.
I used to be able to figure things out. I might not like what's going on, but I could understand why things are the way they are. The past decade nothing makes sense. I'm bewildered by the decisions of leadership at every level. If there are rules, they are contrary to human needs. Destructive in fact.
My city of 50,000 has many skilled and experienced people with decades of manufacturing experience. The three largest employers shed many of those people and now is seeking to replace them. Rather than rehire these folks, they seek people with better credentials from afar. So we have a high percentage of people driving across the state, or migrating from elsewhere to fill local jobs. How can this make business or personal economic sense? Why does McDonalds need Costa Rican order takers? Why are process engineers with 30 years of manufacturing experience inferior to the newly graduated engineers with no experience? Have mathematics and physics changed recently? I drive 100 miles a day to baby sit foreign PhDs who can't connect two wires or run straightforward software applications consistently. It takes more time to understand their "problem" because of poor language skills than fix the problem. Just ordering lunch now is a chore because of order takers who barely speak heavily accented English.
And no one likes their job anymore. It's something you have to do. You get through your shift feeling unappreciated then go home. There is no sense of belonging or permanence. Just a check this week. Who knows or even cares about next week. Foreigners talk about home and it isn't here. It's where they came from and long to return to. There is no we beyond your parents, kids and who you sleep with on a given night. Neighborhoods, communities? Forget about it. Nations? Shut up.
As an engineer I've built logical, performing systems for decades. But the following generation's engineers and managers are fucking educated idiots. Their systematic incompetence is systematically destroying everything built by me and my fathers while replacing it with incomprehensible, inhuman nightmares.
The fact that the US elected a totalitarian, empty suit as President pretty much says it all. This educated idiot, this Nero who destroys the currency and future of the nation while reviling those who built it tells the story why the US is finished. It's all down hill from here. Facebook and iPhone savvy MBAs that can't fix a leaky toilet or manage a convenience store elected one of their own to run the country.
What is the symbol of 2011 america? I think it's wilding, flash mob niggers beating white people or robbing convenience stores using their cell phones. Authorities are bewildered by this and uncertain what to do. Is jamming phones or setting curfews the answer? I think not. In another decade the country will have Botswana-like mobs with machetes rampaging through upscale suburbs hacking up wealthy liberals and moving into their homes for awhile. Or selling white slaves to Mexican immigrants. What to do then?
This is not my grandparent's Depression this time around.
Technology and systematic incompetence killed the US. As computers, cell phones and advanced manufacturing equipment were pushed into service, no one considered what excess workers would do to make a living. At the same time, people became disconnected from each other by technology. How can you care about or really know a person who is just another email or text message to act upon in your life?
At the same time, people have become data, title, education and experience to be evaluated and selected by computer. Candidates for employment, or even dating, are screened and selected by computer algorithms, not humans. The computer might find the perfect credentials of 4.0GPA, Operations Manager title, Six Sigma black belt experience yet have an incompetent jerk who couldn't manage a convenience store. Most people can't communicate well in person anymore so the interview fails to find the needed qualities. A jerk is hired who drives the enterprise into destruction while superior candidates become wards of the state.
I used to be able to figure things out. I might not like what's going on, but I could understand why things are the way they are. The past decade nothing makes sense. I'm bewildered by the decisions of leadership at every level. If there are rules, they are contrary to human needs. Destructive in fact.
My city of 50,000 has many skilled and experienced people with decades of manufacturing experience. The three largest employers shed many of those people and now is seeking to replace them. Rather than rehire these folks, they seek people with better credentials from afar. So we have a high percentage of people driving across the state, or migrating from elsewhere to fill local jobs. How can this make business or personal economic sense? Why does McDonalds need Costa Rican order takers? Why are process engineers with 30 years of manufacturing experience inferior to the newly graduated engineers with no experience? Have mathematics and physics changed recently? I drive 100 miles a day to baby sit foreign PhDs who can't connect two wires or run straightforward software applications consistently. It takes more time to understand their "problem" because of poor language skills than fix the problem. Just ordering lunch now is a chore because of order takers who barely speak heavily accented English.
And no one likes their job anymore. It's something you have to do. You get through your shift feeling unappreciated then go home. There is no sense of belonging or permanence. Just a check this week. Who knows or even cares about next week. Foreigners talk about home and it isn't here. It's where they came from and long to return to. There is no we beyond your parents, kids and who you sleep with on a given night. Neighborhoods, communities? Forget about it. Nations? Shut up.
As an engineer I've built logical, performing systems for decades. But the following generation's engineers and managers are fucking educated idiots. Their systematic incompetence is systematically destroying everything built by me and my fathers while replacing it with incomprehensible, inhuman nightmares.
The fact that the US elected a totalitarian, empty suit as President pretty much says it all. This educated idiot, this Nero who destroys the currency and future of the nation while reviling those who built it tells the story why the US is finished. It's all down hill from here. Facebook and iPhone savvy MBAs that can't fix a leaky toilet or manage a convenience store elected one of their own to run the country.
What is the symbol of 2011 america? I think it's wilding, flash mob niggers beating white people or robbing convenience stores using their cell phones. Authorities are bewildered by this and uncertain what to do. Is jamming phones or setting curfews the answer? I think not. In another decade the country will have Botswana-like mobs with machetes rampaging through upscale suburbs hacking up wealthy liberals and moving into their homes for awhile. Or selling white slaves to Mexican immigrants. What to do then?
This is not my grandparent's Depression this time around.
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