These people might find out eventually what it is like to work for a living.

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These people might find out eventually what it is like to work for a living.

The root of the problem here is a powerful ruling class that is utterly disconnected from common sense and the common experience of regular life. They have grown so detached that they live in their models and dream only of their theories. They decided one day that the whole earth should be powered by wind and sun and decided to make it so. 

Next thing you know, Europe faces rationing and the choice between food and fuel. The currencies are being destroyed. Life spans are shrinking. The pharmaceutical companies are rich as are the states themselves while the rest of the population is being driven to poverty. This is the crisis the world faces today. 

I’ve predicted for the better part of a year that all of this will eventually blow back on the managerial class itself. Sure enough, Gap just announced that it is cutting 500 jobs from its corporate headquarters. This is because of a profit squeeze. Companies are looking around for places to cut to save money and they are targeting the stay-home-stay-safe crowd, the people who imagined that life was perfect because they could move from doing nothing at the office to doing nothing at home. 

Life was good! But now they are being fired on grounds that their supposed work is utterly useless. This trend is going to continue. I’ve called it the euthanasia of the zoom class. Technology has enabled a whole generation of credentialled people earning six figures to pretend to work while they are really just goofing off. But they are being found out during the profitability squeeze. 

These people might find out eventually what it is like to work for a living.

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