50 years ago, George Wallace ran against pointy headed bureaucrats. 40 years ago, that lying fascist motherf'ker Ronnie Ray-Gun ran to destroy the community, and we the Pee-On$ still living with the consequences of his success. Anyone in the bottom 80% of household income notice how well The t_Rump took care of the Pee-On$?
Make Stuff, Make Shit, Make Society WORK. MAKE SHTUF WORK?Where are the living wages, the affordable and humane housing in a community, the NOT bank account ruining health care, the thriving education systems, the infrastructure, the justice systems for all instead of for the rich, the voting systems which just work, the unemployment & retraining systems?
How are We The People ever going to have a government by the people, for the people, and of the people, when the Policy Big $hot$ who run community services are out of touch? Why are the Policy Big $hot$ so out of touch, and, so incompetent?
We are hamstrung by the apex of the truly Privileged Policy Cla$$e$. These Cla$$e$ have hit the Privilege Trifecta. They are financially privileged in family net wealth, in current household income, and they work in positions which are far removed from the actual on the ground realities of the policies they fabricate.
Privilege = $ub$idie$, By The Thou$and$
Supporting the Privileged are the groveling hordes with 1 or 2 of the Privy Trifecta tic boxes in their Power Point Credentials. In the hordes, NOTHING is more important than fitting in with the cool kids of the Privileged Trifecta.
Remember the cool cliques of 6th, 7th grade, 12 grade? Who was in? Who was out? Who didn't have a chance? YAWN. It is scary how many adult life pecking orders are similar.
In the arithmetically challenged world of the Privileged Trifecta and the groveling hordes, society's failings will cease when we are ALL in the top 10% of personal income, household income, and household wealth. We'll ALL be doing the work of higher order thinking, and, like Rodin's "The Thinker", we'll all be sitting around on rocks, emanating, illuminating, ruminating, thinking deeply and profoundly. This model has been spectacularly successful for the Privileged, and, few others.
In some aspects of life, the Privileged & the groveling hordes are a perfect fit with Roman Empire Patricians, British Aristocrats, and Antebellum Southern Plantation Owners. They live and breath in an ether of complete contempt, disdain and scorn for those who do the actual work of making society actually work. It is Jan. 2021 at the time of this posting - how well have the essentially disposable working stiffs been doing since Covid started in March 2020? We know that the Privileged Big $hot$ are doing great!
Someday, to be running an organization you're going to have to excel at making SHTUF work!?
While I may be mistaken in a few minor cases, in my 15+ years of teaching high school math, I honestly can't recall ever seeing any Great Ideas! presented by the Privileged such that there are ball park estimates of the steps required to accomplish the Great Idea!
Given that there are few or no steps for executing The Great Idea!, there are no or few details about staff and time needed to execute the steps. With no ballpark time estimates for how long staff will have to spend on the missing steps, who needs a budget for The Great Idea! Actual budget is vacuumed up by the self dealing Privileged Cla$$e$, with a few crumbs thrown to the beat down working stiffs, too few of whom are earning family wage pay.
There are some constants with these Great Ideas! In education, those of us in the building are blamed for systemic failures which we have little to no control over. The Privileged, off in their Ivory ether, use their mountain of power points to tout their phake accomplishments, thereby justifing their self dealing existence, ultimately leading to a higher paying position within the district or elsewhere.
When I consider the skill of the Privileged Cla$$ with jargon, with self promotion, with spouting virtue signaling platitudes, with doublethink and doublespeak worthy of Robert McNamara's Defense Department, I suppose they've earned their positions in the Privileged Policy Cla$$ of Para$ite$ ?
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Numbers from October, 2020.
-- Individual Income Percentile - 2020
https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/
Top 5% at or above $174,000.
=> appx. 8.883 million out of appx. 176.666 million individuals with income.
Top 20% above $85,950. => 80%, appx. 141.332 million BELOW
-- Household Income Percentile
https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/
Top 5% Above $270,358. appx. 6.421 million out of 128.421 million households
Top 20% Above $142,400.
=> 80%, appx. 102.736 million household BELOW.
-- Household Wealth Percentiles
https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-states/
Top 5% Above $2,584,000. Appx. 6.421 million out of 128.421 million households
BOTTOM 50%, Less Than $121,411.
=> appx. 64.210 million households.
