The crapification of the U.S. economy is now complete. The only thing left is the tiring awaiting the implosion of the entire travesty of a mockery of a sham.
The U.S. economy has actually fundamentally changed, and not for the better. There are many characteristics behind this decay, and I’ll go over a few of the more consequential ones this month.
One consequential vibrant couple of mainstream experts dare discuss is the “crapification” of the whole U.S. economy. That isn’t my description, “crapification” is now in common use. If the word offends you, alternative terminal decay of quality, competitors, utility, resilience, repairability and customer care.
One element no one appears to see is the transformation from a society that as soon as drew its identity from producing quality goods and services to a society that draws its identity from consuming crapified products and services. Now that Americans specify themselves by taking in, they are enslaved to intake: to limit usage is to vanish– and ‘spending time” on social networks is a form of usage, even if no items or services are purchased straight, as one’s attention/ time are important products.
In other words, Americans have actually been trained like Pavlov’s pet dogs to take in, no matter how bad the quality and service. We just buy it anyhow, and whine over the rotting quality and service– but we will not take the only action that would impact corporations and the federal government: stop purchasing the services and products. Pull out, leave, make it at home, cancel the service, simply stop buying abysmally made junk and pathetically poor services.
Corporations and the government are monopolies or quasi-monopolies, and so they don’t need to care whether clients are appalled by bad quality and service: they understand the client has to take in whatever is offered, no matter how crapified.
Go ahead and release worthless service warranties, items created to stop working, items created to be unrepairable, software application that is routinely declared obsolete so we need to buy the brand-new crapified version that requires outrageous amounts of memory and processing power– go ahead, since the herd will continue purchasing the same trash products and services due to the fact that to stop taking in is unthinkable: I take in, therefore I am.
Federal governments understand we have no option and because we continue electing the same “best democracy cash can purchase” politicos, nothing will change. Those in power know the grumbling is simply background sound since the herd will dutifully elect the exact same crapified, corrupt, dysfunctional system every two years.
Think about the IRS, the firm with a monopoly on gathering taxes. I am supportive to the employees of the IRS, those entrusted with the thankless task of collecting taxes, a task made more arduous by underfunding and understaffing. It appears the super-wealthy chose that if the IRS was starved of funding, the odds of their tax evasion being caught by an audit would drop, therefore voila, the internal revenue service has actually been starved by the Demopublicans – Republicrats for decades, as Demopublicans – Republicrats all response to the very same small pool of super-wealthy donors and corporate sponsors.
On the other hand, the typical helpless taxpayer suffers the terminal decay of service and accountability. I am sorry to report that my Kafkaesque experiences with the internal revenue service are likewise shared by many others. Our tax payments are right away transferred (surprise!) however our income tax return that were provided with the payment are stated non-existent– the agency reports no record of the return being gotten.
This has taken place to me year after year. And naturally the crapification of the country’s core record-keeping– taxation– then bleeds into other firms and crapifies their records. So the Social Security Administration reports my 2020 earnings as no, suggesting I get no credit for the immense sum I paid in Social Security taxes (being self-employed, I pay 15.3% of all revenues in Social Security taxes– both the employee and company shares).
Since the internal revenue service declared it had no record of my 2020 income tax return, I wrote the IRS a letter asking if they desired me to resubmit the return. Some months later I received a reply to my previous address– regardless of the fact I ‘d submitted an official IRS Modification of Address kind– saying “we’re dealing with it.” Uh, sure. Fine.
After repeated shots, I finally determined that the only tax year in my file the IRS system recognizes in 2016. If I want to pay my quarterly estimated taxes online, I need to enter the data from 2016. Any other tax year data will draw a blank. In impact, I only exist in the year 2016, six years earlier.
My approximated tax payments are appropriately deposited, and my payment attached to my return is properly transferred, but my tax return doesn’t exist. Others have actually reported the very same situation. News items report the IRS has a backlog of 10 million unprocessed returns, and you ‘d think our elected authorities might reveal some modest interest in the crapification of the country’s tax and Social Security firms, however no– they have no interest in the crapification of the country’s core record-keeping as long as their super-wealthy donors and corporations can continue averting taxes through armies of tax attorneys and unique free gifts slipped into several-inches-thick congressional expenses.
Considering That Corporate America is now nothing but a collection of rapacious cartels and quasi-monopolies, they do not care about the terminal decay of their quality or service, either. They understand we’re going to show up and purchase their trash anyhow because we have no choice, and they understand the quality of their “rivals” (hahaha) product or services is equally noxious.
They can rely on well-trained Americans continuing to fly, eat out, sign up, and buy, purchase, buy no matter how sorrowful the quality and service because intake is all we have.
In the Technicolor dream of corporate promoters, business gain sales by making higher quality products than competitors. Two generations earlier, this was still a cultural/ economic dynamic.
However then everyone with a line of credit purchased whatever, therefore now everybody owns whatever. This saturation of all need suggests sales can only decline, because long lasting goods last a long time. The only method to juice sales higher is by making insecure customers long for the latest fashion, but this artifice has limits.
The service was to crapify all products and services via prepared obsolescence and endless loops of lousy, over-priced service. Products are now developed to be impossible to fix (getting rid of cheapskate do-it-yourselfers) and by utilizing the lowest-quality, lowest-cost parts, manufacturers ensure that the whole item will fail as soon as the lowest-quality part fails.
And considering that lots of components are now digitized, the least expensive electronic element stopping working will trigger the electronic devices to stop working– a $1 chip stops working and the entire $600 item stops working– and so the entire item is then predestined for the landfill– what reporter Bart D. termed The Land fill Economy, a term I now use to describe the whole international economy of prepared obsolescence.
Discerning customers have long kept in mind the crapification of components and the accompanying decrease of value through shrinkflation. Critical DIYers have actually kept in mind how items are sealed, service warranties voided, and simple upkeep jobs like altering the oil in an automobile are now made complex by various perverse ways.
As for service– Business America doesn’t have to care about bad quality because they understand we have no option. All the members of the cartel offer the same rapacious prices and pathetically bad service, so no corporation or institution (health center, university, city government company, and so on) needs to fear a rival might interrupt the comfortable profiteering– there is no real competition in health care, higher education, defense specialists, telecom suppliers, pharmaceuticals, junk food, agribusiness, and so on– none.
I talk about the end-game of these characteristics in my new book, Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Technique for the United States.
The crapification of the U.S. economy is now complete. The only thing left is the tiresome awaiting the implosion of the entire travesty of a mockery of a sham.
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