Do you believe that the American middle class will become a thing of
the past as service and related jobs are either shrinking or being outsourced to overseas countries? The American middle class is slowing become a phenomena of the past. Service and lower white collar jobs are increasing shrinking due to such jobs being phased out due to increasing computerization or related white collar jobs are being outsourced to overseas countries in order to cut costs. Job and/or career generalists are being phased out in favor of those with job and/or career specialists. Those who are job/career specialists are the upper middle class and because of their often advanced level of education and skills, will probably be absorbed in the lower upper classes. Those who were once solidly middle class and lower middle class will join the ranks of the lower classes. Do YOU believe the American middle class as we know it will become history or will they metamorph into something else entirely?We may have to adapt to living more primitively/simply.
We may have to show others how to live off the land, how to live off the grid... and who knows we may live outdoors, eat healthier food and enjoy the sun, the blue sky \ riding bikes instead of cars. Working in our own neighborhoods and helping as needed to maintain healthy communities... home schools may thrive, maybe town meetings will return...
You never know what the youth and their grandparents could bring forth.
It may-as the American class divide becomes more chasmic , those with the most advanced educations (Master's Degrees and Ph.Ds) and with the most advanced, specialized skill sets will be the ruling, elite class. They will have even more socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and even sociocultural influence than at the present time. They will have inordinate power to set the societal rules as they see fit.
There may be even a more entrenched caste system. The middle class will be absorbed. The more advanced educated, skilled, and specialist middle classes will be absorbed into the lower periphery of the upper classes while the moderately and lowly educated, skilled, and generalist middle classes will disappear, becoming part of the ever growing lower classes.
Jobs will be more tightly structured and they will require an advanced level of education, skills, and specialization. That will become the rule of the game. Those without such education, skills, and specialization will be the new unemployed. However, there will be forced jobs for the poor; social programs and/or reformation will be becoming a thing of the past as the rich will now be taxed in order to support such social programs and/or reforms as a result of the disappearance of the middle class who assumed the taxes. The rich will now be taxed regarding such programs and they will rebel, looking at the ever increasing lower class. They will exhort their elected officials to institute, even implement forced work program which will even be more draconian than the present workfare system.
VERY SCARY.
I love your sarcasm
But with sarcasm comes an inane truth.
"They will have inordinate power to set the societal rules as they see fit." If you don't see this happening now than the conservative wool has been pulled over your eyes.
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