The Beast Is Insatiable

We will never have or consume enough because there will never be enough.

Terrifs paused. The world is saved. Thank you, Donald, for coming to your senses. We would be helpless without your fearless and idiotic leadership.

The US has no industrial policy, and its institutions are still eroding. The Orange King paused the tariffs, and politicians clapped like circus seals. Trust in the Empire is diminishing, and faith in our socioeconomic religion is unwavering. Magical thinking was never so astounding.

Countries dumped bonds. LOL. I was talking with a friend yesterday about dollar-based financial assets. Golly, gee, what a surprise!

Dance, MOFO, Dance! The monster we refuse to understand keeps shooting its six guns at our feet, and we keep hopping around, hoping our little feet don't get shot.

Overshoot, economic, political, institutional, martial, weather, and climate whiplash are signs of the collapse of modern, global, techno-industrial civilization.

Biology, physics, and the complex nature of the human-animal tell the true story. If you understand the story, you know things fundamentally need to change.

But we don't want to change. We love our toys and sweets. We need our 30 kWh daily. We can't survive without 23.75 metric tons (around 50,000 pounds) of raw materials annually. We'd all wither and die without importing approximately $326.77 billion worth of raw materials, representing 9.69% of total imports yearly.

The US benefits significantly from foreign labor both inside and outside its borders. Foreign-born workers make up a substantial portion of the US labor force, contributing to economic growth and filling labor shortages. Financialize them, don’t criticize them. They will all borrow and spend.

Foreign-born workers constitute a significant portion of the US labor force, with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showing that in 2023, they accounted for 18.6% of the civilian labor force. And if you don't like that number, dismantle BLS and fire its "staff."

Immigrants, both legal and undocumented, contribute to the US economy through their labor, taxes, and consumption, generating significant economic activity. They always have. “Warriors” is a Netflix series that partly showcases the conflict between Irish and Chinese laborers in the 1880s. The Nation of Immigrants (constant colonialists) will never change and seeks only to maintain its advantage by taking advantage of weaker nations and people who desire a better life.

Immigrants participate in the labor force at a higher rate than native-born workers, and immigration has been a major driver of US labor force growth, especially in recent years. This growth can't continue without fresh workers willing to do hard work for less pay and benefits. Multinational corporations move from one country to the next in search of arbitrage. Profits drive the beast, and the beast is always hungry.

Immigrants often fill labor shortages in specific sectors, such as agriculture, construction, and healthcare, and contribute to the overall productivity of the US economy. 

Car manufacturing requires a specific mix of steel, aluminum, plastics, and other materials, significantly impacting energy consumption. Steel production, in particular, is a major consumer of coal (specifically metallurgical coal for smelting). Coal, beautiful clean coal is no longer mined by 12-year olds, poor immigrants or Coolies, its mined by machines and much of it is imported.

The US economy is interconnected with the global labor market, and the demand for US goods and services dramatically influences labor markets in other countries. I experienced it in China for decades.

US companies outsource labor to foreign countries, which can create jobs and economic growth in those countries while also impacting the US labor market.

Foreign investment in the US leads to job creation and economic growth. US companies invest in foreign countries, creating jobs and economic opportunities there.

Grow, baby, grow! Use it all up until we are machines making paperclips throughout the vast Universe.

Trade between the US and other countries leads to increased demand for goods and services, creating more jobs and economic opportunities all over the world. 

We need more people, work, and consumption until circumstances dictate we can't grow anymore. Cancer lurks unnoticed for decades until it metastasizes, and your days are numbered.

H-2A and H-2B Visa Programs exist for sectors of the economy such as agriculture and construction. What? Little Billy doesn't want to pick vegetables in the Central Valley of California or Georgia peaches? He doesn't want a dirty, dangerous job? He's got student debt, you say, and needs better pay?

Well, let's bring in some seasonal foreign workers to fill in for Billy so he can be an intern at that cool Unicorn Startup.

And those dark-skinned immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs who contribute to the growth and development of the US economy and become too rich to fail—we worship them and want Billy to be just like them when he graduates from his internship. Let's hope and pray Billy can compete with hungry, hardworking, and brilliant foreign competitors who came from nothing and want to be Lords just like all of Billy’s Daddy’s heroes were. Billy loves all the stories Daddy tells.

And while the faithful white supremacists and Christian Zionists want-to-be warlords dismantle the educational system, let's make sure we have enough skilled immigrant engineers, scientists (whoops, forgot, scientism is a heretical religion), doctors, and nurses with their knowledge and desire to make a difference come and save the day until we are finally ready to kick them all out. Back home you go, thank you for your service, and don't be surprised if we bomb you when you get home.

One is despised and laughed at if one suggests we need a new way of life.

Keep telling yourself that everything is normal when the past few hundred years have been anything but normal.

Just believe.