The First World Is Becoming the Third World, Not Vice Versa
As a student of history and anthropology I've learned that in general societies tend to go through four types of economic revolutions, those successively being hunter-gatherer, agrarian, industrial and information, though hunter-gatherer, being that's where it all started, may be more of our natural disposition than all of the others. Anyway the general understanding is that you have to successively get through one stage in order to, more or less naturally, move onto the next.
However this logic does not hold true in countries like Ghana. Ghana never went through an industrial revolution and to this day is and likely always will be mainly agricultural, but the Gateway to Africa has by and large fully entered the information age. No, I don't anticipate computer usage in Ghana to reach the level it has in the West, nor do I think Ghana will ever evolve into a primarily postmodern, information-based economy like America. However more aspiring Ghanaian entrepreneurs are into computers than they are industry, which may actually be the same in America since after all a computer costs a lot less than a factory, and although the Earth is abundant with resources there's still not enough for like every nation to go hardcore industrial unless we really want to further expedite the massive destruction of the environment. If you're a "third world" nation that traditionally has the best of your resources exported, usually on unfair terms, to richer countries then history teaches us that the chances of using your own to go through a full-scale industrial revolution are next to nil.
Today there was an article listed on Drudge that said nearly 80% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, and this isn't exactly news since alternative news sites like Infowars have been reporting these type of statistics for years. In fact in the communities, which were dominated by single mothers, I grew up in the United States surviving paycheck-to-paycheck was the norm, though there was the general perception (via television) that others were doing much better, and it wasn't until I got to college and really became familiar with the system that I realized the "American dream" is really based on credit, not actually like owning the things you use for your day-to-day survival but perpetually being in debt, paying it off slowly sometimes for decades but consistently and in a timely basis so that your credit line is extended and you can go out and borrow more sh*t, the overall point being that whether you're living in the 'hood with no debt or in a big, impressive house with a huge debt paycheck-to-paycheck is still paycheck-to-paycheck.
If I had to point the finger at particular entities who I would blame for the economic downturn of America it would be its prominent politicians and big business, but I'm not claiming to be a financial expert or anything. However as conspiracy theorists have been pointing out for years practically all of the American Presidents for the last four decades have been globalist (the most-likely exception probably being Trump), meaning that they're more concerned with the global picture than the domestic one. As such if they can get someone halfway around the world to do a job for a fraction of the price an American would do it, damn right they're going to go with the former even if it means some American worker is going to be assed out, living paycheck-to-paycheck if he even has a job at all. After all action movies have been telling us for years that big corporations are grimey, but nowadays outsourcing has become so imperative to Western big business that not doing so would likely make many of them unprofitable.
As for me I don't live paycheck-to-paycheck; I live day-to-day. Even this morning I had to get up and fetch bathing water from like a quarter-mile away. I often read the news or visit social-media sites and see Americans cursing the President or damning the Government or threatening not to pay taxes and things of the sort, but these people don't have the practical experience of living in a Third World nation, at least not yet, because if they did coupled with the fact America, albeit comfortably, is slowly entering the Third World they would realize that the only thing really separating them from us is their aforementioned access to credit and the fact that like the Government and public utilities provide them with consistent water and other basics, and if people really get stupid and like rage against the machine, well let me just say that no one in America has boreholes. You can curse the matrix all you want but just remember you're still hooked up to its life support system.
CONCLUSION
There's a philosophy I recently picked up from Robert Kiyosaki - if for instance you're $1,000,000 in debt but have a job making $100,000 a year, chances are you're never going to be able to pay off the debt. Therefore in such situations, when you wake up in the morning and go to work, it's better you at least do something that could potentially bring you the $1mil than just blindly living paycheck-to-paycheck hoping for an economic miracle - the reason they're called miracles in the first place being because they rarely happen.
However this logic does not hold true in countries like Ghana. Ghana never went through an industrial revolution and to this day is and likely always will be mainly agricultural, but the Gateway to Africa has by and large fully entered the information age. No, I don't anticipate computer usage in Ghana to reach the level it has in the West, nor do I think Ghana will ever evolve into a primarily postmodern, information-based economy like America. However more aspiring Ghanaian entrepreneurs are into computers than they are industry, which may actually be the same in America since after all a computer costs a lot less than a factory, and although the Earth is abundant with resources there's still not enough for like every nation to go hardcore industrial unless we really want to further expedite the massive destruction of the environment. If you're a "third world" nation that traditionally has the best of your resources exported, usually on unfair terms, to richer countries then history teaches us that the chances of using your own to go through a full-scale industrial revolution are next to nil.
Today there was an article listed on Drudge that said nearly 80% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, and this isn't exactly news since alternative news sites like Infowars have been reporting these type of statistics for years. In fact in the communities, which were dominated by single mothers, I grew up in the United States surviving paycheck-to-paycheck was the norm, though there was the general perception (via television) that others were doing much better, and it wasn't until I got to college and really became familiar with the system that I realized the "American dream" is really based on credit, not actually like owning the things you use for your day-to-day survival but perpetually being in debt, paying it off slowly sometimes for decades but consistently and in a timely basis so that your credit line is extended and you can go out and borrow more sh*t, the overall point being that whether you're living in the 'hood with no debt or in a big, impressive house with a huge debt paycheck-to-paycheck is still paycheck-to-paycheck.
If I had to point the finger at particular entities who I would blame for the economic downturn of America it would be its prominent politicians and big business, but I'm not claiming to be a financial expert or anything. However as conspiracy theorists have been pointing out for years practically all of the American Presidents for the last four decades have been globalist (the most-likely exception probably being Trump), meaning that they're more concerned with the global picture than the domestic one. As such if they can get someone halfway around the world to do a job for a fraction of the price an American would do it, damn right they're going to go with the former even if it means some American worker is going to be assed out, living paycheck-to-paycheck if he even has a job at all. After all action movies have been telling us for years that big corporations are grimey, but nowadays outsourcing has become so imperative to Western big business that not doing so would likely make many of them unprofitable.
As for me I don't live paycheck-to-paycheck; I live day-to-day. Even this morning I had to get up and fetch bathing water from like a quarter-mile away. I often read the news or visit social-media sites and see Americans cursing the President or damning the Government or threatening not to pay taxes and things of the sort, but these people don't have the practical experience of living in a Third World nation, at least not yet, because if they did coupled with the fact America, albeit comfortably, is slowly entering the Third World they would realize that the only thing really separating them from us is their aforementioned access to credit and the fact that like the Government and public utilities provide them with consistent water and other basics, and if people really get stupid and like rage against the machine, well let me just say that no one in America has boreholes. You can curse the matrix all you want but just remember you're still hooked up to its life support system.
CONCLUSION
There's a philosophy I recently picked up from Robert Kiyosaki - if for instance you're $1,000,000 in debt but have a job making $100,000 a year, chances are you're never going to be able to pay off the debt. Therefore in such situations, when you wake up in the morning and go to work, it's better you at least do something that could potentially bring you the $1mil than just blindly living paycheck-to-paycheck hoping for an economic miracle - the reason they're called miracles in the first place being because they rarely happen.
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