Nine words that are an easy way to protect Medicare and Social Security in perpetuity

[Uben]

31. Productivity can be influenced.....

....by technology....as we have seen. TEchnology is responsible for the loss of vast numbers of manufacturing jobs as well as service jobs. The advent of the computer age has only begun to eliminate jobs, IMO. As more and more jobs are lost to technology, I'm not sure how people are going to be able to earn money. Eventually, it seems, we will have to go to some sort of socialism because there simply will not be enough jobs to go around to feed the populace. Of course, the "I've got mine, you get yours" crowd don't give a flip about that, but it will impact them, too, eventually. The rich will continue to get richer and the poor poorer until there is revolt. At that point, all their money will be worthless because it will place a target on their backs.

I'm not jealous of rich people.....I am rather well off, myself. I retired at age 45 and have a coupla million dollars to last me the rest of my life. But, I was a blue collar guy most of my life, and all my friends are blue collar workers, struggling to make ends meet. So I know the need that exists. One doesn't have to be a genius to see where the current system is leading us. The question is, how long can the rich stave off revolt? We have seen the beginnings in the Occupy movement. It is a growing sentiment that will eventually snowball and lead to a complete collapse of the capitalistic economy we now enjoy. In a hundred years, everything will be different. I'm not sure what it will be like, but it will have to change to appease the masses.