The results have been absolutely catastrophic.

Written by Toby Rogers, but I think this is such important information and must be kept at hand, so I reblog it here.

In the early 1990s, elites decided that the U.S. and Britain would transition to a postindustrial, services-based economy, anchored in finance.

Bill Clinton and Robert Rubin were the vehicle to accomplish this goal in the U.S. while Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were the agents to implement this plan in the U.K.

Legions of well-educated economists assured us that this was all a good thing.

Free trade deals were passed, manufacturing jobs were shifted overseas, the working class was crushed — but that held down wages and inflation so for a few years it seemed like it was working.

The results since then have been absolutely catastrophic. Promised retraining never really happened and never would have worked anyway — 60 year old former factory workers with only a high school diploma are not going to become computer programmers. Rust belt towns saw disability rates for chronic pain skyrocket.

Big Pharma flooded these depressed communities with opiates. The annual death toll from opiates across former factory towns resembles a war — but with only one side fighting, it's actually just a massacre.

The U.S. didn't make anything so it resorted to financial gimmicks which inflated the stock market and then collapsed the economy in the early 2000s and then again in 2008. The U.S. economy has never recovered.
We engaged in numerous protracted wars in the Middle East because military contractors still controlled the government and the economy needed some sort of stimulus. War Keynesianism is not very efficient though — bombing people in mud huts does not produce a very big multiplier effect.

Ultimately there were too many unneeded workers and seniors on disability, Social Security, and Medicaid. So elites decided the U.S. and Britain would transition to an economy anchored in pharmaceuticals.

Suddenly every cough, sniffle, and rash was rebranded as an existential threat to humanity that must be countered with a whole-of-society response and vaccine mandates for everyone.

When that didn't generate enough profits, elites resorted to gain-of-function research to manufacture pandemics. These engineered outbreaks would create markets for endless toxic vaccines and "treatments" that enslave the working class via iatrogenic injury and kill off seniors and the disabled.

Many of the same elites who sold us on the wisdom of a postindustrial, services-based economy, anchored in finance, now promoted the virtues of the pharmaceutical-based economy.

It's the most cynical economic development strategy in human history. And it will continue until we stop them from doing this to us.