As the old saw goes,
Now I’ve seen it all.
A self-made millionaire
who made his money
helping college kids
become entrepreneurs
has used his genius IQ
to figure out that
soon automation
will put an alarming
percentage of Americans
out of work, many
permanently. Add to that
the fact that companies
like Amazon paid zero
dollars in taxes last year
feel little social
conscience and have
nothing to fear from
a president who thinks
that the wages of the
working poor are
“too high.”
Long story
short: we’re staring down
the double-barrel
of even more tent cities
popping up like deadly
mushrooms all across
this fruited-plane.
SO Yang has proposed
a “Freedom Dividend,”
1000.00 a month, for
every adult, regardless
of what other income they
might have or make. This
would take much of the
terror out of life, and allow
the peasants to stop and
smell the poppies, spend
more time with the tots
(or thots), and create music,
paintings, and other forms
of art…perhaps even become
entrepreneurs like Yang
himself. So what do the
overworked and underpaid
(and underlaid) masses
do when they hear
about all this? Like
the natural born slaves
and dupes they are,
they roll their sleepy eyes
and smile supercilliously
as if the possibility
of a humane existence
is all too-good-to-be-true,
just like the well-heeled
gatekeepers have
trained them to do.
And then they vote
for liars, child-molesters,
and the progeny of
slave-masters, just as
they have always done,
century after century,
while fancying themselves
discerning and free. And
the moral of this story?
It might be something
like this: “the freedom of
those who know ends
where the “freedom”
of fools begins.”
— FB
Musings, Mutterings, and Condemnations 