1. Listening to this recent @Tinkzorg podcast and it has me thinking again about friends and enemies and alliances. I have for a long time thought about the conflict as those connected with the real life, who make things deal with material realities vs pretty much everyone else.
2. This podcast and some other tweets elsewhere has got me thinking along new lines. What if the ultra-wealthy, the Elon Musks @elonmusk of the world and those who deal with material reality have the same enemy? player.whooshkaa.com
3. I have said that @elonmusk is not one of us, and he isn’t. But it is quite possible we have the same enemy, the PMC. The managers in many ways are gaining their predictive and influence from the excess value created by the risk taking of the ultra wealthy and worker labor.
4. The PMCs have aligned themselves over time, not with the workers whom they fear becoming, nor the ultra wealthy whom they envy, but with the underclass. As @Tinkzorg has noted, most PMC causes are really jobs programs for PMCs, skimming value for themselves.
5. Realistically, society could probably function just fine with a tenth of the number of PMCs. This term: the “middle class” has always lumped white collar and blue collar workers together by income. We talk about the war on the middle class.
6. I am just thinking out loud here and maybe it’s all out to lunch, but what if the problem is there is too much white collar middle class for the good of society?
7. Can or should the blue collar working middle class align itself, strike a bargain with the ultra wealthy to clip the wings of the PMCs to the benefit of both. I know the ultra rich have never been friends of the blue collar worker, but do we both share the same enemy?
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