I hate to break it to you, but you've been had.
I know you may not want to hear it, but you're just a tool of the oligarchy.
A single line of code in an operating system.
A cog in an immense machine.
The corporate oligarchy you defend doesn't care about you - not at all, not even a little bit.
When they've extracted all they can take from you, they'll throw you aside and move on to the next.
To them, you are disposable, replaceable, expendable. A cost on their income statement. A liability on their balance sheet. Nothing more.
You will never be inaugurated into the ole' boys network. You will never get a seat at the table. You will never be invited to a three-martini lunch at the country club. You will never join the upper echelons of the ruling elite - they reserve that for their own.
The "rugged individualism" and foolish optimism they've instilled in you is an illusion. They tell you if you work hard for them, for long hours and little pay, that you too can become one of the masters.
They are lying. They will pull the rug out from under you, right as you think yourself on the cusp of entering the ruling class. No, they won't allow it.
They'll cut your salary to "stay competitive," and then ship your job off to China anyways. They'll fire you so they don't have to give you severance pay. They'll declare bankruptcy to steal your pension.
You think yourself honorable and righteous for not demanding the income you've produced. You are a fool.
You think the myth of the "free market" is a matter of morality and principle. You are a dupe.
The oligarchy doesn't care a lick about the ideology they tell you to care about. They have no morals. They have no principles. They will happily rob you blind as you're foolishly parroting their talking points.
You are a serf, they are the lords. You are a slave, they are the masters.
They've taken your health care, your schools, your drinking water (remember back when you didn't have to buy bottles?), your roads. They've bankrupted your country and stolen your future.
But now that they've taken everything there is to take and they don't know what to do, for they have no use for it all anyways.
They never took because they wanted. They took because they wanted to take.
Their illusion has been exposed. Their fraud has been outed. Their system of compulsion is broken. Their apparatus of exploitation lies in ruin.
Their failure is manifest. Their debt-slaves are defaulting. Their fiefdom is revolting.
It's all coming crashing down, and not even they can prevent it, for while they could have, they were too busy taking.
The implosion is unavoidable.
The final collapse is imminent.
The crash is ongoing.
And when it finally hits you, for the first time in your life, you will be able to see clearly.
You will be able to see their cynicism. You will be able to see that they were lying. You will be able to see that they were stealing.
And you'll know exactly what to do.
Cross-posted at my (semi-)new blog, The Daily Elitist.