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OUTLINE OF HISTORY

1800’s: Slavery was the mode. The wealthy owned their workers and cared for them. That included their food, clothing, housing and medical care. Some rich people found it economically feasible to simply hire the workers for a wage. Then the workers had to fend for themselves. It was cheaper in the long run to hire the worker than own him.
Early 1900’s: 1st world war and the rich found a boon in profits. Factories worked three shifts to supply the war. In the 40’s the 2nd world war started and there was a shortage of male workers so the factories were forced to employ women for the jobs. At the end of the war, men came home and most women returned to housekeeping. The economy skyrocketed. Business found a shortage in workers in the fifties and the strong unions were forcing them to pay a decent wage plus benefits. In fact, due to the shortage of manpower, businesses were competing for competent workers and that also helped in the higher wages and benefits. Big business concluded they must either import workers or ship the jobs out of the country. Tariffs in place at the time kept shipping jobs overseas financially ineffective. At that time, an item made in Japan for a nickel and cost a dollar to make in the states would be taxed 95 cents so American companies could compete with foreign products. Big business talked congress into lowering, even doing away with many of the tariffs. That made it advantageous to use other countries to manufacture their products and ship them to the states.
Big business also realized they had a huge unused workforce in the black population so they started integration to bring the Blacks into the workforce alongside the whites. Many Blacks found new opportunities with integration and most have benefited from it. Business benefited the most by creating a larger work force and now the workers were competing for jobs rather the companies competing for workers. They still needed more workers to further inflate the economy.
In late 60’s and early 70’ they looked back at the 40’s when women worked in the factories and realized they did a fine job. By changing the regulations for buying a home with a mortgage from only one income allowed to two incomes allowed, they included the potential of the wife’s income to also be used. Thus, the ability to use two incomes allowed more people to become eligible financially for more expensive homes. The housing market skyrocketed. A $10,000 home suddenly jumped to $20,000 and higher. Having a two-income family went from a luxury to a necessity.
80’s: Big changes came with the computer. At first, they were great for games and then the internet surfaced and technology went crazy. In the 90’s and early 2000 computerized machines were taking over the factories. Unions were weak and machines don’t ask for more money or time off. The United States had become nothing more than paper shufflers. Many jobs were returning to the states but not to people. To machines. People were accepting lower paying jobs just to survive. Now it takes two incomes with overtime to just put food on the table.
Big business found long ago that people will not rebel providing they have a roof over their head and something to eat. Big business created welfare to keep people in check. If the average family did have extra money, big business took it away through advertising on TV. Telling people, they can’t live without a new car or a bigger house. Etc.
2010’s: Technology is hard at work finding cures for every disease known to man. People are living longer and staying healthier. Technology is working on DNA and stem cell manipulation to not only correct bad genes and improve people’s health but also to find out why we age. Why do some turtles live for 300 years and the Mayfly only lives three week? Can we slow down or even stop the aging process? Another word for stopping the aging process is immortality. Who will have access to immortality? The deserving? The workers? Or the very rich?
With immortality on the table, we have a growing number of unemployed workers that are no longer required. We have close to 8 billion people on the planet, we have lost over 60% of our wildlife since the 70’s and pollution is a real problem. With the global temperature rising and the oceans rising, we could lose some of our major cities in a few years. The very rich have orchestrated our lives from the 1800’s. What do you think they’ll do now? Can we spell Armageddon?