The Decline is Good

It is no secret that things are getting worse. Rising housing costs, stagnating wages, corrupt government, and so on. This isn't just a "things were better back then" nostalgia-blindness, but a genuine and quantifiable phenomenon. But this is a good thing.

So why do I say is this a good thing? Surely declining wages and collapsing social safety nets are bad, no? No! The decline must occur, people must become angry, before they are able to be organized into a rebellion not only against the current state of affairs, but against the capitalist system in its entirety.

Welfare systems, social security, universal basic income, these are all half-measures meant to appease the people and prevent a revolution. It is a bandage on a bullet hole. The biggest enemy to the revolution has been the middle class -- a nonsense term -- comprised of various labor aristocrats and professionals. The people who have a comfortable life, and who believe that the system functions perfectly fine because it seems to work for them. The workers who would betray their class for their own comfort. But a shrinking middle class is good. It means that people are being forced into lower paying, harsher, working class conditions. They are becoming proletarianized, and becoming revolutionary. This is why the state is insistent on preserving and expanding the middle class, because a strong middle class is the backbone of the current system, it is the strongest defense against revolution and for the preserving of capitalism.

Moreover, these systems are only possible through the repression of third world peoples. For example, many nations in Europe with the strongest social nets also have the strongest immigration. The general narrative is that the immigrants seek the social systems. But perhaps, those immigrants, that cheap labor, is necessary to support those systems. This can be further compounded by the fact that Denmark, which has very strong social safety nets and anti-immigrant policies, is facing a crisis of welfare -- they have even raised their retirement age to seventy, recently.

On the inverse, the western flourishing of wealth, of capitalism working for the people, is best pronounced in commodities. Cheap televisions, cheap clothing, and so on. But the goods that seem the cheapest are made overseas at very low wages, or in harsh conditions. China, with their 9/9/6 work schedules or Vietnamese sweatshops as two examples. When there is not this globalist foreign-labor market to insulate prices and keep them low, such as with immobile goods like housing, it becomes apparent that the current way of life and current system is impossible to sustain for the average citizen. Not because the production capacity doesn't exist, but that it is not as profitable.

So when welfare systems start failing, when social security begins collapsing, when people lose their cushy office jobs, this should be a cause for celebration. Without the systems to reconcile capitalism to the people, the apathetic extractive forces of capitalism are laid bare to the people, and they can understand that this system must go.