Too true. It’s getting more than a bit insulting that we’re considered too stupid to understand the game they’re playing. Some of their moves are more obvious than others, but they also brag about most as accomplishments. Controlling people through underemployment and low wages while increasing their cost of living isn’t new. Remember all of the media reports about the average worker being two paychecks away from homelessness? Next came the rise of payday lenders and repealed/relaxed usury laws. That was before the push for increasing the minimum wage to $15.
Of course, corporations portrayed themselves as victims unable to pay workers more instead of just admitting their greed. Now that corporations are buying up houses, apartments, mobile home parks, and RV campgrounds, they figure there will be nowhere left for the impoverished to run. For some, the endgame is to also profit by increasing the number of incarcerated people, who won’t be compensated much (if at all) for their labor. Keeping the formerly incarcerated disenfranchised is part of the overall strategy, too.
Now we have popular entertainment involving true crime, copaganda, and reality shows featuring cops pursuing/interrogating people who don’t seem to be able to afford an attorney* or choose to remain silent.
*I don’t know the name of the show, but happened to see part of an episode at a family gathering, was horrified and mystified why anyone looking at it thought it was entertaining.
