Capitalism Is Obsolete: Not Unless They're Ready To Accept The Need For A New Economic Operating System

Tech workers can organize all they want by themselves and it still won't make much of a dent in what the big companies can do to find competent labor elsewhere. At least as much as it would take to break any serious attempt to get themselves together enough to have any meaningful clout at all. The corporations have bigger pockets after all, with the proportional ability to take a longer view as far as costs are concerned.

No. The only way workers of any stripe are going to get a fair deal at this point is to band together as hourly and salaried workers as a whole. Pretty much all of whom are the ones actually keeping America going at all these days.

We have to organize as much of the working majority as we can into a new party alliance: The Libertarian Socialists. This would be the party to work for not only the "Grand Compromise" that I have suggested, but also to put into power the Administration that would be dedicated to implementing the change to a new form of economic organization. And to do this as a part of a complete national mobilization. A mobilization that would allow us to do the great effort of not only the change itself, but also to prepare us for the difficult times that are coming with the combined effects of global severe weather, but also the tremendous humanitarian crisis that will soon dominate the news just as much as the increasing political tensions that will go along with it. And then you can throw in the other tensions from increased economic competition, as well as the further tensions arising from decreasing world resources.

Make no mistake. All of this is one mega huge prescription for disaster on multiple fronts; here and in the rest of the world. And as it stands now, only the most spectacular of imaginations could possibly conceive of how we could be less prepared to meet these challenges; Especially with the internal dissent that will arise if we try to mobilize later on without taking care of the tremendous imbalances now present within the American Social Contract; the kind of dissent that would force almost any type of government into never ending successive rounds of becoming more authoritarian, more distrustful, and woefully less free.

This is what we're heading for if we do not act now. Tech worker. Construction worker. Administrative. Professional. Factory worker. Minimum wage worker. It doesn't matter anymore because we're all needed to keep this country going, and if you do not get a living wage you can count on with that then you are not getting a good deal at all. More to the point, however, is the most salient fact that you simply cannot have a Democracy in the first place if you do not find a better way to organize how you want to live your lives.

And at the end of the day, that is what this will ultimately end up being about. How do you want to live your lives? Do you really think keeping with the factory mentality of a hundreds of years old operating system is the way to continue with? When the technology we have now could allow us to live however we can all compromise enough to agree on?

Could the choice be any more plain to see? Of course, this does require that you either A: pull your head out of your ass; or B: you stop pretending that things will work themselves out (because I can assure you the "experts" on the current economy don't really know what to do anymore just as much as you); so you just continue on your merry way of being entertained, distracted, and caught up in your own daily grind. That might to work for a while longer, but it's going to start getting harder and harder to ignore. Just you wait and see.