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Rich get rich by paying software engineers to develop applications that deliver efficiencies. Efficiencies usually mean getting rid of workers.

Newspapers used to be big local employers, newsroom employees, print workers, packaging workers, delivery workers. Software engineers developed news applications for rich people and many newspaper workers lost jobs.

The increase in legal and illegal immigration has cause labor supply increase, while jobs have fluctuated, resulting in stagnant or decreasing salaries.

Offshoring manufacturing and services to China also led to decrease in employment opportunities.

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These factors are real but working around them is just a matter of proper government policy. Of course, the problem is a lack of willingness to work around them.

The government made the decisions that results in rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. The rich oligarchs are getting great returns on their investments and owning government. While millions of people are facing declining quality of society.

California had millions of people without power during summer fires. Texas just had millions of people without power during winter cold. These are third world type events, society can’t deliver basic life infrastructure.

The rich owned government is responsible for declining quality of social structures for millions of people. They don’t care, they can just distract with BLM and social strife, instead of improving quality of society and preserving job opportunities for

While I agree with a lot of what you said, unless first world means “perfect and flawless”, what happened in California and Texas arent “third world events”. Our systems have limits, even multi billion $ systems built by very smart engineers. Rolling wildfires across a state is infrequent on that scale in California. That cold snap in Texas was one of the lowest ever on record. These are rare events that to prepare against except in hindsight would seem like a waste of everyone’s money. France and other places in Europe lose power during heatwaves and cold snaps. That’s just reality.

Our grid isn’t prepped for a nuclear war, or an alien invasion for the same reason. That’s not a third world outcome, that’s a look behind the curtain to see how fallible the world just is.

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