Moving On from The Humane Part 2

I have yet another upcoming phone interview with a transient company wanting to hire at a rate that will not even pay for the mileage accumulated to do the job. I'll listen, I'll discuss, but it may be as futile as expecting a reboot of the American senate or house of representatives in my lifetime. It's not going to happen. 

It is startling that a company can offer such a job. It means that there are people who work jobs that send them into an economic spiral, and a departure from everything standard. It is an accelerated phenomenon, for a greater percentage of the populous, to a point that it cannot be explained away. It is discussed in private circles, amongst neighbors, in the not-so-blessed economic potholes on the highway to decadent wealth.

I live in a region shadowed by this prevalence. It is called Appalachia. It is a geographic region and cultural region, the latter mainly because of the former and the effects that such topography inflicts on the inhabitants.

Instead of economic expansion, companies shrink or disappear. Emigration exceeds immigration. The sad song, like a dark version of "Jolene," tells you all you need to know. You may try, but someone has already taken your dream. They are in the flatlands, a cultural wasteland where wealth and debt work together to create a stability. While the mountaineer has a faith in the supernatural, the urbanite has a blind faith in a man-made economy based upon premises that don't work in the region, mainly because Appalachians own less resources than those who parasitically take from them. 

And while Appalachia suffers from this tragedy, many other areas, in between the money-debt system centers, share the same fate. The same lack of economic incentive. And it is not just in the countryside. There are hundreds of thousands of ex-urban migrants escaping to campers and mobile homes because their prospects have disappeared in the technological change shaping the entire nation. While the unaffected, including those broadcasting a particular narrative for the country, enjoy the benefits of that increasingly technocentric system, there are many migrating into a survival mode that would terrify the ones who retain wealth now.

But as technocentrism touches nearly all industries, will the ones who acquired such vast wealth be the next victims of the ever-changing paradigm, or will their businesses be excluded from the purge destined to come when more humans within the system are replaced?