“Today slavery is less about people owning other people, instead, it is about exploiting and controlling them.” – The Economist

According to the Brookings Institution, the inflation-adjusted median wage of Americans has only increased 10% from 1973, while the price of a Ford Mustang has risen by 60%. Tucker Carlson reports the wages for white males has declined by 11% since 1990, and for British Millenials born 1981-84, the growth in median pay is zero.

In his book Men Without Work, demographer Nicholas Eberstadt notes the stark contrast in official ‘unemployment’ numbers (4%) with the staggeringly low work participation rate (60%), worse than the Great Depression, and the crushing effect it is having on the psyche of the nation. “Unlike the dead soldiers in Roman antiquity,” he writes, “our decimated men still live and walk among us, though in an existence without productive economic purpose. We might say those many millions of men without work constitute a sort of invisible army, ghost soldiers lost in an overlooked, modern-day depression.”

Typical of the devastation in rural America is Appalachia. “NAFTA and trade with China destroyed the region’s industrial base, along western Virginia’s Interstate 81. Furniture and clothing factories closed, laid off their workers, and shipped the factories south of the border or to Asia. In some places, the locals managed to start new industries; Charlottesville and Roanoke are cities with thriving economies today. On the whole, the chill of unemployment set in. Getting on disability became the new job. Unemployed people on disability and Medicaid could get OxyContin very cheaply, and they sold their surplus pills. They also taught their neighbors how to work the system to get opioids.”

Urban workers have not been spared the carnage. “A 65-year-old New York City cab driver from Queens, Nicanor Ochisor, hanged himself in his garage, saying in a note he left behind that the ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft had made it impossible for him to make a living. It was the fourth suicide by a cab driver in NYC in four months.”

Diversity / Feminism Stefan Molyneux is an internet philosopher prone to theatrics, but he has his moments. “The original ‘immigration’ was women from the home to the workforce. Drove down wages for men, meant that you needed two incomes. Also gave the State tax collateral to drive national debt, at the expense of the children.” The notion of women being ‘free’ to ‘do PowerPoint’ all day to return home to an apartment full of cats and box wine instead of being at home with children and a husband providing for them is one of the greatest psyops of the 20th century. The constant drumbeat from the media to make the economies like India ‘richer’ by including the “missing 235 million” from the workforce is not only insulting to mothers who do arguably the most essential work – that is raising the next generation – it is a thinly veiled attempt to reduce the population. Major corporations have jumped into the ‘diversity’ drive with full force, although small businesses, perhaps more exposed to market forces and lacking the typically female-dominated HR departments, are notably less vocal. Red Hat paid for an ad campaign on Twitter to promote “how feminism inspired Stephanie Wuschitz to create a place for women to work on open hardware and art projects with other women”, and Goldman Sachs talks about “increasing female leadership.” Yet the business rationale for this is questionable, with @WokeCapital comparing it to “Vaclav Havel’s seminal essay ‘The Power of the Powerless’, wherein a greengrocer puts a ‘Workers of the World, Unite!’ sign on his store in communist Eastern Europe not because he believes it, but because it’s the party line and he wants no trouble.” When Amazon built an AI to hire people, it had to shut it down because it was discriminating against women, deciding men were preferable employees. Immigration