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    Be interested to see Guilluy's definition of this 'wealth' that the big cities are supposed to Archived Message

    Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on April 30, 2019, 4:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Gilets Jaunes: a demand for democracy that goes beyond hipsters and media approval"

    generate. To me it seems to be largely composed of the constant churning of pieces of paper and computer pixels which are supposed to represent some sort of notional wealth - wealth which I always assume to be largely hallucinated, and liable to evaporate in a flash when all the derivative card-houses begin to collapse.

    This goes along with the imported indentured labour of 'guest workers', of course, acquired by the hipsters to be a cheap servant class strictly for themselves in the cities. Nannies, cleaners, waiters, cooks, gadget-fixer technicians, and other such service personnel working for shit-gig wages, which the stroppy native plebs won't accept, especially with the supercilious hipsters' kiss-my-arse, take-it-or-leave-it work conditions attached.

    Meanwhile, the generation of real, actually palpable wealth - actually-useful goods and services that everyone really, truly needs - still rests with whats left of the industry, agriculture, infrastructure and skill-sets residing amongst the common citizens away from the big carbuncle cities.

    The notion that London, Paris, NYC, etc., actually generate enough 'wealth' for their whole hinterland countries - actually capable of sustaining all the life-needs of all those marginalised populations - seems to me to be simply grotesque. Of course they don't. Only in the neolib-economics babblers' hallucinations.

    Moreover, as these early days of the Long Descent away from hitech industrial 'civilisation' continue to clamp down on our life-support arrangements ever more fiercely, this harsh reality is going to bear down on us all with increasing weight - very much including the over-stuffed gilded farts amongst the city sophisticates, members of the Pampered Twenty Percent of humankind, every last one of 'em, who usually produce next to nothing of actual use for real life-support. Wall to wall borgeois wank for the most part.

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