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From: (Anonymous)

Some emails imply that if one refuses the vaccine, one will not be allowed to return to in person work, which to me read very much like a not-very-well veiled threat of nasty repercussions for refusal. While they can’t outright say they require it as a condition of employment, they could certainly find other ways to make your life miserable until you leave on your own - or fire you for other reasons. If I got fired tomorrow I’d have a moment of silence for the paycheck and then move happily along, but for some of these people a salary class job loss would be personally devastating. Is their whole identity. Women with young children work insane hours, emails in the middle of the night while nannies parent their kids and they miss the best years. Sad! I believe they will regret it one day.

From:

kimberlysteele

The salary class is an ever-shrinking game of musical chairs. I remember the hell my aunt went through to make it until retirement and a pension from AT&T, and that was back in the early 1990s. Plus I think we're on the verge of a second Great Depression that will hit in 2023, and that is going to put the salary class on the endangered species list. They do not know how to be poor.

From:

mollari

What makes you say it'll be 2023?

From:

kimberlysteele

I think the powers that be will be able to kick the can down the road until that point. Of course I could be wrong.

From:

causticus

Undoubtedly, the government will keep printing more money and doing everything possible to keep the salary class employed in ever-more-useless bureaucratic make-work jobs. So perhaps 2023 will be the year the magic money printing machine pops its remaining gaskets and the cruddy oil start spurting everywhere until all the gears comes to a stop and the final hum of the machine dies down.

Most of those spoiled brats and pampered ingrates are going to make rather poor quality indentured servants.

From:

kimberlysteele

From what I can tell (extremely limited and potentially dead wrong, of course) it will be the tip of the iceberg of their bad karma coming home to roost.

From:

kimberlysteele

And yeah, they're going to wake up one day with a McMansion that is about to go into foreclosure and say "Why did I forgo raising my kids for this garbage?"

From:

mollari

Sadly I doubt that: I think that requires more self awareness than I've seen from most of the upper classes right now, and I know way more than my fair share...

From: (Anonymous)

Fortunately, although I’m doing well now I’ve been poor (like Really Poor) before and it doesn’t scare me. I am so lucky to have a strong marriage (to a person whom I disagree with politically, even! But we don’t fight about it) and healthy kids. I’m paying off my debt so I can be ready because I also feel it coming in the air. I’m planting lots of edible plants and building up my fabrics and notions stashes for sewing garments. My husband is handy, so I think we will be fine, but most of these folks - whew its going to be a HUGE adjustment and I don’t think they are flexible enough to handle it.

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kimberlysteele

If we get a Great Depression (and I hope we don't) in the next few years, I think a great many of them will commit suicide. The two men I mentioned upthread in the comments have contemplated suicide at the best of times. If SHTF and they become poor, they are both gay men who never had kids. There won't be anything left to live for.

From: (Anonymous)

Honestly? I almost welcome the coming recession/depression, strange as that is to say. Hard times make strong men and we don’t have too many of those around anymore. Maybe I wouldn’t hear so much construction noise when I’m trying to do my SOP in the woods, ha. I’m sure it would suck a lot and I would be broke as a joke, but the current situation is untenable. Something needs to give, or we are going to have increasing numbers of horrific natural disasters on our hands from the astral muck discharging. Katrina is when I realized there was a connection, though I didn’t know what it was until JMG explained it to me. Thank the gods for that man.

From:

kimberlysteele

I have noticed construction on new houses and apartment complexes slowed down in a big way in 2020. Behind the building where I work, there's a formerly middle class, now upper middle class neighborhood where somebody built a fantastically ugly, modern McMansion. It's black and takes up an entire corner. There was a modest rental house there until late 2019. It has a four car garage. The family left two of the mature trees: as bald stumps. They hung a volleyball net between them. Of course it is a single family home and it is a white family with two young kids that had it custom built.

It strikes me as rather obscene to construct a McMansion after the events of 2020. 35% of small businesses in Illinois went under in 2020. Flaunting wealth is extremely unwise. I have been reading a bio of Marie Antoinette and the French royals had the same "but everyone does it this way" cluelessness as the salary class and their McMansions. Marie Antoinette wasn't the narcissistic lesbian nymphomaniac monster as caricatured in the libelles. She was actually a devoted mother. They tortured her little boy to death and he died broken and insane while imprisoned. Compare Ghislaine Maxwell, who is woken up every fifteen minutes in her prison cell (tortured). It is cruel and unusual punishment for sure, but when you hear the accounts of how she tricked school age girls and then watched or participated while Jeffrey Epstein raped them, it doesn't seem unjust. The family in the ugly black McMansion is more M. Antoinette than G. Maxwell: innocent and vacuous.