@MOE
I see it differently.
I see it based upon my own bias and experience. I saw the same shit in Miami with the riots.
You see people fighting change. These people are being attacked at their livelihood and fighting back.
During the riots in Miami, it was the fact that the pecking order was changing. It was Whites then Blacks. Then the Cubans showed up. The Blacks felt like they should stay 2nd in the pecking order. They didn't The Cubans overtook them. Thus the anger and violence.
Here you have people who have seen stagnant wages. You see them look at the cost of real estate in CA, NYC, etc., and go apeshit. They are looking at Real Estate that is more than they will ever earn throughout their lifetime. They see it flaunted on TV. They see it flaunted now on Social Media. They look at some young 19-year-old girl who is famous for what and now is a billionaire! That irks them. All the same time they scream that we are a country of opportunity. They are seeing the opportunity pass them by. They are not lazy. They are hard workers. They hear stories from their parents and grandparents about how they had a good life. They worked at the GM factory for 30 years, retired, got a gold watch and a nice pension. They don't have that as an option anymore. They see that the stuff that used to be made has gone away from their region. This is fueling desperation which fuels anger. The days of hard physical days work being able to support your family is evading them. The country is changing and they can't change with it. They read a story about a 21-year-old hired at Facebook for 280k a year. They look at some scrawny zit faced kid and wonder wtf is this guy getting so much money for and the kid can barely lift a gallon of milk.
The reality is that it is the party that THEY voted for that fucked them over. It is themselves who fucked themselves over. They love the fact that they can pay less and get more at Walmart. In the late 1990s I bought a portable DVD player from Panasonic. It was 1k. I used it as a means to keep our kid entertained when we went on road trips. Now, that same device is under $50 and includes a carrying case and headphones! So today, the average guy can buy that device whereas 20 years ago, it was out of their realm. Goods have gotten cheaper at the expense of their jobs making shit. I seriously saw this when I started doing stuff in the apparel industry. As I said in 2005, it's really simple, a guy in America makes about $100 a day. A guy in Mexico makes 100a week. A guy in China gets 150 a month. A guy in Vietnam gets even less. So capitalism is at play and it is destroying their livelihood. All the time that they scream they are pro-business, they are not realizing that they are pro their own extinction. They don't see that people like me are the ones that destroy jobs, all in the name of capitalism. Every time I write code, I know that it is to increase productivity, aka, need fewer people to do the work. Automation is the destruction of their jobs.
It's ok. I realize where things are going. I know the big picture issues. China does NOT want its currency to increase. If it does, then wages go up. If China loses the designation as the world's factory, then what happens to their ~1.5bn citizens? Our country is still in the change from being a country that made shit to a country that is service oriented. Those people you see . . . they want it to go back to making shit . . .that's because that is their skillset.
