The FUTURE in America WILL Belong to the Upper Middle & Upper Classes

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   gmwilliamsposted 7 years ago

   
   The 21st century will be UNLIKE other centuries.  There will be enormous advancements in education, technology, & medical care.  Such advancements will co$t money- & be prohibitive for the lower, working, lower middle, & even the solidly middle classes.  Such classes will be increasingly marginalized in 21st century culture & society.   These classes will sink deeper into either being the new lower class(lower middle & solidly middle) or face impoverishment(lower & working class).  Such classes will be locked into poverty w/very little or no chance for advancement for themselves ,particularly their children.    In the 21st century, there will be ONLY two classes: the UPPER & LOWER w/the MIDDLE being eradicated.  The days when there is social mobility is gone.  Those who are born in the lower socioeconomic classes will be permanently lower class, even being an underclass while those who are born wealthy will have the opportunities that wealth provides.   Say goodbye to social mobility in the 21st century.  Only those in the upper middle & upper classes will THRIVE in 2lst century America, if not the world.

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      Kathryn L Hillposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      You are forgetting the power of the human spirit. Nothing holds it down. Nothing except a lack of education, a lack of freedom and a lack of good will. In my opinion and observation, times are changing. We are becoming less concrete and more etheric, abstract and virtual. The kids are very light and hopeful compared to the previous generations. They easily access the world and network within it through technology. They are not as rebellious, they are not as heavy or down on the world as we were in the seventies, for instance. They are more hopeful and seem to understand that things are as good as you want them to be. Every generation tries to improve their world. And the world/society has improved if you look closely. You have to observe and work with those in the real world, not the the one portrayed in the media based on negative sensationalism. 
      
      Who knows, maybe those who become successful will feel more compassion for the poor and help them directly through mentoring them,  helping to provide better eduction and offering employment opportunities. Humans are surprising and love is the fail-safe.

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         gmwilliamsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         NAH, not a chance. This is the 21st century.  If one is born poor, H/SHE is doomed, even damned into poverty.  There is LESS social mobility than ever before.  People who become educated & successful today were born into at the minimum, solidly middle class families.  Those born into the lower middle class have an EXTREMELY SCANT chance of success, forget about those born into the lower classes.  Those w/the GREATEST chances of success are THE UPPER MIDDLE & UPPER classes.   It Is time to stop being fantastical.  The reality is that social class is becoming less fluid, especially in this century.   Affluent children will become affluent adults while poor children will become...POOR adults.

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            wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            I think you're forgetting the millions of jobs that have been farmed out to foreign countries.   Trump says he's going to bring them back; if he does we'll have those millions of jobs available once more.  There DOES come a point when machinery (automation) is more expensive than labor, and even the best machinery requires a mechanic.

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               gmwilliamsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

               That isn't going to occur.  Technology will become more advanced than ever.  Jobs that humans can do will become fully automated.   Those w/o an specialized, advanced skill set a/k/a computerized technology will be the new poor.  Even lower level white collar jobs are being downsized or phased out.  If one doesn't have a specialized skill set-being computer savvy at an advanced or have an advanced degree that is relevant to postmodern society & culture, h/she will be marginalized in this society.   Those who have either the specialized education &/or skill set will be the upper middle & upper classes.  The solidly middle class will be phased out-those with specialized, specific skills will merge into the upper middle, even upper classes while those who don't possess the aforementioned skills will merge into the lower classes.  Welcome to the 21st century.

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                  wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

                  A year or so ago my daughter-in-law was explaining that my kind of work (blue collar) was being phased out and her type (white collar) was taking over in the US.  That we were becoming a nation of information, not products.  That as a result one must have a white collar job to survive here as the blue collar was going overseas.
                  
                  Within two weeks she was training here replacement...in Korea.  She now works for someone else.
                  
                  We either bring our jobs back and accept the higher prices or ALL classes will disappear.  Welcome to reality.

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                     Kathryn L Hillposted 7 years agoin reply to this

                     If Trump can contribute toward that, Yay Trump!

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                        wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

                        We'll see, won't we?  The concept that we can buy whatever we want from other countries, forever, isn't going to work for much longer.

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                           Kathryn L Hillposted 7 years agoin reply to this

                           There is a powerful current no one can swim in. It is a huge force of illusion and delusion.
                           And, no matter how much we wish otherwise, Trump is also powerless against it, and is probably even contributing toward it.
                           Who knows?
                           
                           I'll be over here wading on the shore, watching the waves crash and the currents push wherever they want to go. 
                           

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                              gmwilliamsposted 6 years agoin reply to this

                              The past is gone.   Blue collar jobs will be phased out &/or automated.  That is a fact of life.   Blue collar jobs AREN'T returning.  Lower level white collar jobs are being downsized or automated.  Only people who have specialized skills and higher &/or specialized education will thrive in the future i.e. the upper middle & upper socioeconomic classes.  The solidly middle, lower middle, working, & lower socioeconomic classes won't have a fighting chance in the future.   Many will become part of a permanent underclass.

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                           colorfuloneposted 6 years agoin reply to this

                           That's right, we need to buy Made In America again! 
                           
                           I read this report on economist's studies, and its more favorable than I would have thought.
                           *  http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-gop … 5-wages-7/
                           
                           I do believe we will be going to a centralized digital currency at some point here in the US, having our own form of official cryptocurrency so the government can still track us to tax us.  But, people have already broke free of the government's financial system with their own digital currencies that can't be tracked, which seem to be the trend for millions of people world-wide who are gaining wealth by buying low and trading high or cashing in.  I have a friend who made a $4,000 investment in Bitcoins and he made a return of $94,000.  He and his wife bought the house of their dreams, and are making payments to pay it off A.S.A.P.
                           
                           Are we headed for The Golden Age?

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   threekeysposted 7 years ago

   I haven't completed any research as yet nor do I have answers, Grace. However, I would like to raise these questions?
   
   Are there any history buffs out there who are versed in civilizations that experienced a great divide in classes together with what the range of causing factors were? ( maybe then if we do the opposite we can overcome this situation?)
   
   For all those then that fall out of the upper wealthy class, what could be our own currency?( In the past herbs, spices, conch shells and salt was our form of money)
   
   Do we NOW need to become entrepreneurs, that is self employed? (So that we dont need to work for the upper wealthy and become their human robotic slaves)
   
   There wil be MORE of us falling out of the class of upper wealthy. It is said, that there is mass survelliance via the BAE cyber software system. What if we threw our phones away, went off grid and rejected biometrics en masse?
   
   
   Is there anyone here that plays with virtual reality in creating new worlds? Have you extrapolated our world scenario yet? If you have, do you have any tips or advice for us now?
   
   I think we just have to remind ourselves there is more of us than the upper wealthy class. So we should have the upper hand if handled strategically. What do you say?

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      gmwilliamsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Although there are more poor people than wealthy, they are....POWERLESS.  It isn't numbers that convey power, it is money & influence.  The wealthy have POWER & INFLUENCE, thus they call the societal shots.   Poor people are powerless & disposable.   
      
      To reiterate, co$ts are rising for things such as education, housing, food, & medical care.  It is difficult for even the solidly middle class to live decently, let alone the lower classes.   With the increasing prohibitive cost of education, housing, food, & medical care, the lower classes(underclass, solidly lower, working, & lower middle classes) will be LOCKED OUT the decent life.  They will subsist at a more primitive level.  They will even regress to the animalistic level akin to the early Dark Ages & to the concentration camp system.   I suggest you read Eugen Kogen's The Theory & Practice of Hell which aptly describe the concentration camp system.   
      
      I will even go as far to state that the lives of the lower classes will be synonymous to Dante's Inferno, describing the conditions of lower hell.   There will be no respite for the lower socioeconomic classes.  They are DAMNED in the early Christian &/or fundamentalist Christian sense of the word.  The poor presently are viewed as unintelligent, even stupid.   People know that such people are poor because of their unwise decisions.  They don't think, they act INSTINCTIVELY.    Look at the poor around you.  It's disgusting how stupid they act.   It seems that they are HAPPY, even CONTENT being impoverished.  If they weren't, they WOULDN'T BE POOR.

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   gmwilliamsposted 5 years ago

   The future in America WILL BELONG to the upper middle & upper classes.  Everything is in their favor. Since the late 20th century, most of those who have succeeded in America at the minimum came from solidly middle class backgrounds while the rest came from upper middle & of course, upper class backgrounds. From the 1970s, people from lower class backgrounds i.e. lower, working, & lower middle class backgrounds haven't made inroads to the solidly middle, upper middle, & upper classes.   They have remained in their respective classes of origin. 
   
   The Horatio Alger story is merely a myth.   Children who are born into the lower classes have scant chances of becoming solidly middle class & above.   Only upper middle & upper class children succeed & will succeed moreso in future America.  The days when people from lower socioeconomic class backgrounds advance into the solidly middle, upper middle, & upper class socioeconomic classes are OVER!  The only people who will be educated & successful in the future will be those who are born into the upper middle & upper socioeconomic classes, the rest, even the solidly middle class, will be doomed, even damned. If a child is unfortunate enough to be born into the lower socioeconomic classes, h/she must realize that h/she has a hell's chance that h/she will be educated & succeed into the upper middle & upper classes. Even if h/she is an A student & has a high IQ, it won't matter in the least.  H/she will have to be content w/being at the bottom of American society.

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      gmwilliamsposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      In the 21st century, socioeconomic class will become more rigid.  Those who are born into lower socioeconomic households will remain lower class.  In essence, poor children will be poor adults no matter how intelligent they are.  The odds are 90:1 that lower income children will become educated & successful.   The poor teach their children to be poor- they have nothing else to offer their children as opposed to solidly middle, upper middle, & upper class parents who have plenty to offer their children in terms of socioeconomic opportunities.  Poor children are damned from the inception...….that is the facts & truth.   Poor children won't advance themselves but will remain generationally poor as their parents & grandparents before them...…..Even if an upper middle class child is mediocre, h/she will still be phenomenally successful while a smart poor child won't ever be successful...…. The poor child will have to settle for a low end job, be incarcerated in the prison system, or be combat fodder.  Those are the "choices" poor children have in the 21st century.

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   Castlepalomaposted 4 years ago

   I learn more about financial matters from my rich Daddy image,. My poor Daddy I can learn other things. Both are important, anything in the 5 areas of intellectual, financial, physical, spiritual and realationship. If  any one of these become very weak, it can unbalance my life.

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      gmwilliamsposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Castle, rich parents have more to offer than children than poor parents.  Rich parents provide their children w/educational & socioeconomic opportunities that poor parents can't provide.  Poor parents are parents in name only- they merely reproduce but do nothing to sustain their children beyond the minimum rudiments if that.   Poor parents have nothing to offer their children.  When I was a child, many poor children disrespected their parents on the basis that such parents were poor.   These children KNEW that their parents were NOTHING so they openly disrespected them.  They talked about their parents in a disparaging way.  Poor children hate their parents, believe it or not-they know that their parents can't provide for them the way solidly middle, middle, & upper class parents can.  Children aren't stupid.....

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         gmwilliamsposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         The FUTURE for poor children consist of the following: (1) being combat fodder for wars, (2) being incarcerated in the prison complex, & (3) being a wage slave or unemployed which will lead to  #2.   There is no good future for children born into the lower socioeconomic echelons i.e. lower, working, & lower middle class.   The future belongs to the solidly middle class, more so to the upper middle & upper class.   Upper middle & upper class children will have THE BEST futures imaginable as the world is their oyster. 
         
         Poor children were, are, & will always be disposable in one way or another.   Poor children have always been devalued......It starts in the home, poor parents never valued nor loved their children.  They were seen as serviceable to their parents in one way or another.  To their parents, these children are tolerable nuisances at best & insufferable burdens at worst.  Poor children are mistreated even by their parents.   No one wants poor children which makes them totally disposable by society, even their own parents.  These are the facts.

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