It really is all about class

Impressionism / Theodor Pallady/ Scenă de port (Jeux de boules)

Been reading about inflation lately.  Truth be told, I am not all that concerned about it.  

Because you see, what inflation is telling us is that we have to do the things that we have been avoiding doing for the past fifty-some-odd years.  We have to start taking less out of the pie.  Because the pie is getting smaller.  To make matters even worse, there are more of us wanting a piece.  That simply makes for less all around.

Now I am certain that the rich folks will make out just fine.  But “rich folk” in this context is a pretty tiny group.  They will be a little less the plutocrats, but their actual lifestyle won’t change other than being made less obvious to draw attention away from them.

The folks that are going to have the hardest time are the folks that the plutocrats use to do their bidding.  I have taken up the nomenclature “the PMC” (Professional/Managerial Class). Truth be told, they (we) have had an excellent run of undeserved rewards and poor overall performance.  The trash heap that we were so involved in creating by means of our half-assed plans is not looking at all stable.

But the saddest part about all that is that the folks who actually did the dirty deed are shuffling off into the sunset with their 401-K’s and their vacation houses.  Their successors in the PMC are probably getting a little frantic seeing as the mess that the previous generation made is being revealed and they, not the perpetrators, are going to take the hit.  But the PMC needs a thorough trimming, but there is going to be much gnashing of teeth and squawking.

When this happens, I am super curious about how it will play out.  I think that there is a pretty damn huge population of drones in the PMC that have bullshit, high-paying jobs that will be shown the door.  But this population has been indoctrinated to the idea that they are leaders, important, and worthy of the coins that they bring down.  When they get shown the door it will be interesting to see if they have the gumption to become a revolutionary elite

From what I can read out of recent history, the leaders of any insurrection are folks who feel that they are entitled to the perks of being a leader/rich person but haven’t made it into that class quite yet.  It is my understanding that folks who were kicked out of that class by the machinations of history are even more likely to raise a stink.