“Today the rich man knows in his heart that he is a cancer and not an organ of the State. He differs from all other thieves or parasites for this reason: that the brigand who takes by force wishes his victims to be rich. But he who wins by a one-sided contract actually wishes them to be poor… He will therefore pray that they may be destitute, and so be forced to work his factory for him for a starvation wage.”
G. K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
“Corporate profitability is not translating into widespread economic prosperity. Five years after the official end of the Great Recession, corporate profits are high, and the stock market is booming. Yet most Americans are not sharing in the recovery.
While the top 0.1% of income recipients—which include most of the highest-ranking corporate executives—reap almost all the income gains, good jobs keep disappearing, and new employment opportunities tend to be insecure and underpaid. The allocation of corporate profits to stock buybacks deserves much of the blame.”
Harvard Business Review, Profits Without Prosperity
Western society is now dysgenic as well as dyscivic. This means it cannot survive in its current form. Regardless of how fervently you support concepts like women’s suffrage, equality, diversity, immigration and so forth, it is important to understand that, in the long term, you are choosing them over indoor plumbing, cheap and plentiful water, airplane travel, living wages, access to high-tech medical care, and reasonably full employment.
Believe or don’t believe that you are doing it, but that is exactly the choice you are making every single day. The fact that you can’t see the brick wall looming a few miles down the road does not mean it is not there.
Vox Day
http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2015/06/post-evolutionary-man.html
@Anonymous
I will usually go check out links that people post as it has led me down some interesting rabbit holes. One of the people that responded to that piece had this to say:
“This really doesn’t follow. Another possibility is that many species are adapted to reduce their reproductive rates in times of stress, increasing long term reward at the expense of the short term. Whether consciously or not, people might tend to avoid having children in times of famine, fearing their inability to support and protect them. Western culture has become toxic, and people are growing increasingly pessimistic about the direction our society is taking.”
I would have to agree. There are no shortage of people – white people maybe but not people. The middle class can not afford to have children as it takes one of its two workers offline.