Preparing for Poverty

You know they’re preparing us for poverty (they spin it as “austerity” of course) when the top story at the Guardian’s website (probably printed in The Observer on Sunday) reads “Babies don’t suffer when mothers return to work, study reveals“. Interestingly, the findings in the study mentioned in this article overturn contrary findings from earlier studies. We’re going to need lots of cheap labour and women usually fit the bill for that kind of work in developed nations. Despite all pretences to the contrary, equal pay for women has never been achieved in reality.

Of course if we still had traditional family structures, large houses, extended families, then kids are raised by the family anyway. And they still are in some places around the world. That’s how it was in my parents’ time in India and Pakistan. Now in India, the dominant new apartment style is you’ve guessed it, a two-bed apartment in a block. Designed to fracture extended families and turn communities into history.

Since men are generally paid more than women in the West and since so many more of them are going to be unemployed, we’ll have to get the women working for less money. There’s your equality in the face of hardship. It’s not pretty, but the ruling classes stealing from the rest of us never has been and never will be.

If you want further proof that we’re being set up for austerity, or rather, poverty, you need only scroll further down the page to find something less than savoury. Apparently, “Insects could be the key to meeting food needs of growing global population” – yeah that’s right. We eat too much livestock, so they want us to meet our protein requirements through the consumption of creepy crawlies instead.

Apparently, 80% of the world’s population already eats insects, so it’s just us squeamish folk in the West who are going to have to get used to the idea. Obviously, the ruling classes will continue to eat steak while the rest of get used to a life that’s becoming increasingly unpalatable.