Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
That's unfortunate. The attacker sounds like one of those disgruntled blue collar workers getting washed away in the changing global economy.
He may have a story similar to this guy (parts of it, anyways):
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
I ranted about this recently too:
https://rumbaradvice.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/the-political-insanity-of-patriarchy/
To me, it's this complicated sentiment that breed ground rife for the skin-head stuff to re-emerge under that guise of neo-nationalism that is worrisome.
Manufacturing jobs have been in decline since before the computer came out. To give a time reference. As automation continues soon there will be only maintenance jobs left. Until they figure out how to get rid of those too.
To give some perspective.
I was working on a 40 billion dollar oil and gas plant. It's completely automated. Unmaned except for twice or three times a day check ups by maintenance staff.
A plant like this in the past would've had hundreds of people working at it.
This is reality. Do I like this reality? Not really. I've yet to see how they will sort out an economy reliant on consumerism when no one can buy anything. I know were not quite there yet but it's heading that way. Rich people can only buy so much...
Of course the idea that we need to buy 'stuff' to keep the economy moving is part of the overall problem here. We no longer have a real tangible economy and I think that's part of the problem. A service only economy doesn't really work.
I'm not a fan of regressive thinking but the future has to be seen differently than it is now. Work needs to change and our materialism needs to be slowed to a trickle.
Unfortunately the rich people don't like those thoughts as it's money out of their pockets but what other choices or power do we as individuals have? The world cannot keep going 'as is' and manufacturing jobs are not sustainable anywhere.
Our world is a mess, the population is too big and the US populace has to stop living large because that's unsustainable. Of course it's all very complicated and doesn't help the traditional 'blue collar' worker or any worker that is under threat of automation or cheap labour. That's why I said things need to change. Change isn't easy and we as humans have gotten really really lazy.
We need a new economic model and new training to provide a decent life for the many and not just the few. That is our only hope but I don' think this will happen any time soon. Sorry to be pessimistic.
The pictures look great too.
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