Meanwhile,
the underclasses are seeing their wages frozen, and the essentials such as
housing and food are getting more expensive. The new apartments created during
China's housing boom are out of reach of the average factory worker. Wealth in
China is going to the upper-class such as factory owners and managers. What
America has been experiencing for the last few decades, is now happening to
China as well as in Russia.
As
the capitalist system continues, wealth goes to the top 20%. In time, the
people become angry. They see the 20% in the media, and human nature kicks in.
People in the under-classes want what they see advertised on television and
other media outlets as well as what they see on the street. The people start
demanding higher wages as they desperately want what the top 20% have. They
then start looking for a different economic model.
This
is when they start to look towards Venezuela and what Chavez has done for the
underclass. They start to agitate and demand socialist reform. In China, this
isn't hard to do as they remember the socialism of the PRC. This time they are
demanding bottom-up socialism, not the ridged communism of the last 60 years.
In
time, the people in Venezuela will not remember the top down neo-liberal system
that their fathers and grandfathers suffered under. As the people forget the
harsh life before Hugo Chavez, they will start to look around for a different
system. The cycle will repeat again.
It
seems that in order to maintain a continuous government without social
upheaval, the two systems, socialism and capitalism must merge. Chavez allows
capitalists to operate freely in his nation. Maybe that's the route that all
nations should take.
The
reasoning of the capitalists is that socialism is expensive is somewhat true.
Still, it's the right thing to do. All people should share in the nation's wealth.
In the United States this isn't feasible. Most of the discretionary spending in
the US goes to the military-industrial complex. The answer to that problem is
to stop these mini-wars that they are waging in Yemen, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and
other nations.
All
nations should direct their energies toward the people of their countries. This
will stop the cycle of changing economic systems through coups, revolutions and
such. The main culprit on this planet is the United States. Since 1978 the
wages of the middle-class have been essentially frozen. Meanwhile the top 10%
have seen their wealth rise.
Here are some dramatic facts that
sum up how the wealth distribution became even more concentrated between 1983
and 2004, in good part due to the tax cuts for the wealthy and the defeat of
labor unions: Of all the new financial wealth created by the American economy
in that 21-year-period, fully 42% of it went to the top 1%. A whopping 94% went
to the top 20%, which of course means that the bottom 80% received only 6% of
all the new financial wealth generated in the United States during the '80s,
'90s, and early 2000s (Wolff, 2007)
Those
figures are staggering. It's no wonder that the United States is building
detention centers and passing draconian laws that remove our civil liberties.
As people argue over gay marriage, abortion and other false-flag issues, they
don't understand what has happened to the middle-class and the under-class.
They find it hard going in today's economy. Soon, human nature will kick in and
they will look towards a new economic model. Unions are powerless in the US and
oftentimes they are an instrument of management. Strikes that are not sanctioned
by the unions will soon start happening. Movements such as the occupy movement
will continue.
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