The Great Johannes Podcast

Eating the Poor: Western Nations Are Going Bankrupt [stream #91]

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From time to time, I can sense that the economy is taking a downturn. This affects only working people and those with small savings. For the financial elites, it can be beneficial to plan massive new infrastructure projects, like bridges crossing channels and seas. But do the jobs created really add to the well-being of common people? Or are we cannibalizing our economy and digesting ourselves? An increasing number of young people, even—or especially—those who have managed to start a family, are finding there’s no future for them in their own countries. Rents and mortgages are unaffordable. Cars are becoming too expensive. Anyone who thinks 20-year-olds can afford a new electric car is missing something. A major driver of this malaise is the education system. Degrees and diplomas no longer guarantee a job. Western nations have become overeducated yet underpowered. Young American graduates are leaving higher-educated states and moving to so-called lower-educated states. Traditionally, it was the opposite. Higher-educated states paid better salaries despite increased job competition. Today, there are no jobs at all. So, young people are flocking to states with lower pay but at least some demand for educated workers. This is the insanity we’re dealing with. What happens when the educated and reasonably smart class of graduates finds out their efforts were in vain? That being a smart, credentialed person doesn’t matter anymore? That you’d have been better off starting a TikTok channel making thirst trap videos? You could have been the next Addison Rae or Madison Humphrey. But you studied facial recognition technology, earned a PhD in iris scanning, and now you’re jobless. To protect their fragile positions, Boomers, Gen X’ers, and Millennials are feverishly holding onto all the jobs. That’s why every job posting now requires a minimum of 10 years’ experience for what used to be entry-level roles, even for technology that’s barely five years old. You have to be old to get a new job. So, if you’re Gen Z or Gen Alpha, it’s time to realize there may never be jobs for you anymore. This has happened before. In the mid-19th century, during China’s Qing dynasty, a man named Hong Xiuquan failed his exams to become an official four times. It drove him so mad that he adopted Protestantism and rallied millions against the state. It was called the Taiping Rebellion, and over 20 million people died. The event was only overshadowed by the Second World War. If history is any guide, the atmosphere in the West spells revolution too. Not just a workers’ revolution to overthrow the bourgeoisie, but a revolution of the bourgeoisie against the 0.1%. Unlike during the Taiping Rebellion, Americans and Western Europeans face the arrival of their immigrant replacements by the millions. Our ruling classes understand this situation well. They’ve positioned themselves to side with immigrants against the white middle class. Even Hillary Clinton, the former presidential candidate, once wrote in her university thesis that “the middle class is where the wealth is.” She quoted Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, outlining a program to dispossess the white Zoomers and Gen Alphas who now can’t get jobs. Clinton wrote her thesis when jobs were plentiful, limited only by one’s ambition. Today’s young people must face a gauntlet. You’ve been discarded by the society that taught you to obey it. You’ve been betrayed by the politicians who told you to work hard, study hard, and party hard. Your bad luck doesn’t stop here. You are the middle class. You still have some assets and savings. If you don’t, your parents do. The ruling elites need that wealth to fund the migrant revolutions against you. It’s not enough to print more money to devalue your savings. They’re actively looking to seize your assets—your houses, yachts, boats, and bicycles—to hand them to migrants as a reward for siding with the rich. I’m joking. Most of you don’t own yachts. But you have a life, and they

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