Capitalism has many positive offerings, but it is a competition. And in a competition there will be losers.

It is the roll of a civil society to ensure a mechanism to re-charge those that lose. America has employed trickle-down policies, but because so much money has trickled out, the lower-middle class and lower class have been stranded, with each successive generation degrading.

Bubble-up economics is a solution that re-charges the lower class directly, ensuring vibrancy at the base of the economy and improving the possibility of ‘upwards mobility’. Read more: productivity-oriented social programs.

Thanks to me, you have no idea what is real and what is not.

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Not listening is wrong in a society where speech is considered to be a vital component of stability and growth.

Freedom of speech is meaningless if no one is listening.

And it is impossible to listen (I mean truly listen) if you are already set in your ways, predetermined to respond to the speaker regardless of what they say.

So I figure it is unconstitutional to not listen and consider what your opposition has to say. And the good news is that if your idea is actually the better, it will still come out on top.

Isn’t that dog cute?

This, to me, is a lot like the association between a capitalist’s drive for profit and eco-destruction. Example: company’s drive for profit leads to some business decision which leads to some procedure that leads to some environmental consequence.

The set of decisions that gives way to eco-destruction can be accounted for within one understanding: there is built into capitalism the necessity to please the consumer (this is not the same thing as the necessity to create good products).

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Take as an example grocery bags, whether paper or plastic. Both of these products are rendered to the marketplace for the purpose of convenienc-ing me which is a course towards profit for the store.

A store would lose my business to a competitor if it did not provide to me bags to carry my groceries (unless no stores offered bags … hmmm). The damage of billions of bags is documented: the production of, the delivery of, and the disposal of.

Compare that to the common practice in Europe where people bring their personal grocery bags with them. This practice is leftover from their pre-1990 communism. However, with the advent of aggressive competition and the necessity to please customers to beat competitors, grocery stores began to offer plastic bags to their customers in the early 2000′s, and with all of these new European plastic bags, the environmental damage increases.

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Take as another example, automobiles. I lived in Atlanta for nearly 15 years. For 5 of those years I drove a 50-mile round-trip commute … even though MARTA was available.

Chevy did not have to try hard to convince me that having a car of my own is a good thing. They, in the name of profit, built a product that appealed to me, regardless of the repercussions of pollution, etc.

And again compare this to Europe, where until just recently nearly everyone used buses and trains, company execs, dirty coal miners. This trend is coming to an end though, trains are very empty now. Why? Because they are adopting the American-style consumerism, which is a variation of capitalism.

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The only opportunity for the trapped particle is if some magical external grabber reaches into the black hole and pulls it back out.

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Water also has a concept of ‘critical point’ associated with it, but instead of this critical point being based on distance – like the event horizon – it is based on temperature. When water falls below 32F, the molecules become trapped in solid form, incapable of moving … kind of like the particles that fall into the black hole.

And the only opportunity for the iced molecules is if some external agent injects warmth into the system thus freeing them again.

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There also exists a critical point in human psychology … for all of us.

And once you or I or anyone falls below it we are no longer capable of functioning and behaving as would a normal, healthy individual. The only opportunity is if some external force helps us.

random picture of a black hole

I think that most of the lower class in our country are actually just individuals, entire neighborhoods, that have fallen below this critical point.

In the meantime all the healthy people sit around and express their doubts about the members of the lower class: they’re lazy, they’re drug addicts, they’re criminals … but we have only observed them in their sub-critical-point psychology state, and we have done so from our own healthy state point of view. They struggle to function.

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Bubble-up economics has the potential to fix this, to directly inject positive influences into the difficulties that the lower class faces. It is a system that attempts to re-invigorate the lower class via productivity-oriented social programs, an array of types of programs, each with the similar expectation to benefit the struggling individual but also the taxpayer paying for the program through an applicable ROI.

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Trickle down works if the upper class does their part.

But America is neither of these … and so a lot of the money that the upper class receives in the form of tax favoritism to invest into trickle down programs (read: jobs) actually trickles out as the upper class invest, outsource, and relocate into foreign markets, thus stranding the lower and lower-middle classes.

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What helped them was getting uniforms, which gave them dignity. What helped them was getting training and coaching, which gave them skills and self confidence. What helped them was getting gas money to travel to the games, which gave them access.

With all of these assets in place, it is now a great time to give them a pep talk. Now they will be able to appreciate it, absorb it, and use it for inspiration. Otherwise it would have just fallen on deaf hopeless ears.

Without the appropriate assets the Bears would have never won ... the pep talk was helpful too.

Though the Bears fail to win the championship game, their story gains attention, and Walter Matthau is able to get a return on his investment as his reputation improves in the local sports community (maybe spring boarding him to a solid coaching position at a high school … who knows).

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Understanding their viewpoint of the big picture is important. Here is a metaphor that attempts to describe how they view their life experience in relation to the life experience of an impoverished culture.

Understanding the silver-spoon capitalists' viewpoint of the impoverished community is important.

Imagine a drop of H2O, Water, living its whole life in a temperate room. It and other drops of H2O mingle with each other and live a pleasant life. He can easily adapt to new places since he has shape-shifting capabilities, and can easily recover from adversity (such as being splatted by a light hammer) because of its capability to regroup with other liquid droplets.

Water has heard rumors of a drop of H2O that lives differently from himself, Ice, who lives in the freezer of course.

Ice experiences the world differently: he is unable to mingle seamlessly with others, he is unable to adapt to most situations because of his inability to change shape, and when struck by a light hammer his shards are never able to regroup.

This is all good and well, but it does not really matter! … until a compassionate person begins to realize the very different lives that Water and Ice live, and most importantly realizes the very different quality of their lives: Ice is highly stressed; Water is happy.

The compassionate person brings the issue to everyone’s attention. Water says, ‘if they are so unhappy, why don’t they just behave the way we do: learn to recover better from adversities when they occur, adapt to changing situations better?’

Because Water has only experienced reality from his temperate perspective, he was unable to genuinely comprehend the limitations of Ice’s reality, though these limitations have been recited to him several times. Water could just not realize that Ice does not have these capabilities due to the laws of nature, though Ice does wish dearly that he did have these capabilities. The only way for Ice to get these capabilities is if Ice’s environment changes to a more temperate one.

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It is important to acknowledge that within that culture there are many sub-groups, some of which have very little in common with each other, oddly enough. I will focus on the subgroup of capitalists.

Capitalism does truly offer a lot of great things, and it is a very natural system. If used in a society correctly it can be an engine of vibrancy. But I, personally, see its dangers as well.

Capitalists(per se), on the other hand, relentlessly believe in it, beyond any rationale or concern that it might have dire consequences for the losers. They say that it is the loser’s fault that they have lost, and that they themselves should not have to support the losers. This is where the idea of rich man keeps the poor man down comes from; but notice: ‘poor man’.

For a black population still struggling economically due to the complexities of generational inheritance, it is not completely incorrect to translate rich man keeps the poor man down as white man keeps the black man down, though it is not the whole reality. However, for the capitalists it is not racism literal, but rather ruthless competitiveness in the game of life.

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The Haves have a terrible habit of taking for granted all of the mitigating and supportive factors that have accompanied their life of diligence.

Here are a couple of questions for our mega-diligent college alumni:
1 – did you ever go snow skiing during your college years, or to the beach for spring break?
2 – did you ever have sex with a beautiful girl during your college years?
3 – did you ever take a summer hiatus for three months?
4 – did you believe in your future, did you have a sense of optimism?

The point is that although college can be tough, it is accompanied by an assortment of positive mitigating factors. These reduce the stress level of the academic demands, making the hard work of college much more survivable.

But for people below the Subsistence Threshold (their head is below the water), these mitigating factors do not exist and thus the hard work of a person struggling to get out of their own hole is much more complex and difficult, and as such the odds of success are DECREASED.

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