You really, really, really do not want to piss off the middle class to the point where they have no choice but to start organising and taking action if they're going to survive. At all.
Maybe today's Thyssens will be smarter, and get out of the country while the going is good.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Good thing I'm not cynical, huh? The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
Once those extremes stop being involuntary, you're left with a group of people who are smart, capable and angry.
Probably three quarters will decide to blame themselves and fall into depression and despair.
The remainder will rediscover solidarity and turn into something you really don't want in your state.
All it takes is exactly one competent and charismatic leader, out of millions of potentials, and you have an interesting situation.
All it takes is exactly one competent and charismatic leader...
Perhaps when the majority of those who fancy themselves as "middle class" economically are in extremis they will consider being so gauche as to actually take concerted action to secure their and their children's future. But then, perhaps not. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
