Serial Layoffs, Soaring Prices, and the Engineered Collapse of America’s Middle Class

When 78% of HR leaders admit their companies are serially laying people off, that’s not capitalism adapting — that’s a controlled demolition. And if you think that number is just a blip, think again. Nearly half of large employers in the U.S. are conducting layoffs every quarter. That’s not economic turbulence — that’s a freefall. This is not an economic “cycle.” It’s a systemic unraveling, and the technocrats in charge are letting it happen — or worse, they’re orchestrating it. The empire is eating itself, and they want you to believe it’s all just part of “market fluctuations.” Meanwhile, the average American is being bled dry — one pink slip, one price hike, one tariff at a time. 🧨 Layoffs on Repeat: When “Quarterly” Becomes a Guillotine The Careerminds survey is damning: 78% of U.S. HR execs say their firms have gone through multiple layoffs in just one year. 40% say they’re cutting employees every quarter. 75% of layoffs happened within six months of the previous round. This isn't "restructuring." It's corporate euthanasia — and you're next in line. Why? The stated causes: "Financial instability" (translation: executives and shareholders made bad bets and are offloading the consequences). "Post-pandemic overstaffing" (translation: they used COVID bailouts to bulk up, then dumped the bodies when the subsidies stopped). "Market disruption" (translation: they outsourced to China, and now act surprised when it backfires). This isn't a glitch — it’s the plan. Massive, coordinated job purges keep labor costs low, suppress wage inflation, and remind the workforce who’s really in charge. The jobless are easier to control — they’re too busy surviving to rebel. 💀 Retail Apocalypse: The Big Box Blight Target — once a middle-class darling — is bleeding. Sales have flatlined for four years. Traffic is down almost every week since January. Its stock is down 60% from 2021. And don’t you dare blame consumer choice. People aren’t shopping less because they want to. They’re shopping less because they’re broke. Walmart, the last refuge of the working class, is price-gouging like a cartel: A toy T. rex? Up 38%. A heating pad? Up 25%. A fishing reel? Up 45%. Air conditioners for small spaces? Jumped 15% — in a year. And now they want to slap a 50% tariff on anything with steel or aluminum. You think that’s going to hit the elite? No. It’s going to hit you — butter knives, deodorants, fire extinguishers, even strollers. Essentials. 🥩 Starvation Economics: When Meat Becomes a Luxury The cost of beef has entered hyperinflation territory. The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest since 1951. Back then, the U.S. population was 154 million. Now it’s 340 million — and yet we’re supposed to survive on the same amount of livestock? That’s not a shortage — that’s engineered famine. Droughts, feed costs, labor shortages? All real. But what’s behind them? ESG mandates are strangling ranchers. Corporate ag monopolies are consolidating food production under centralized, global control. Carbon taxes are incentivizing cattle culls in the name of “climate sustainability.” Your ribeye steak is now a symbol of privilege. Welcome to the new class war — fought at the dinner table. 🌽 Even the Veggies Are Rigged Vegetables are up 38% in a single month. That’s not inflation. That’s price terrorism. Farmers are screaming that produce is rotting in the fields due to lack of workers. So why is the federal government tightening visa programs? Why are they not addressing the domestic labor shortage with urgency? Because high prices benefit the monopolists. Scarcity justifies control — of what you eat, where you work, and how you live. And now, labor shortages are the next weapon. By making farm work economically unviable, the elites push small farms out, driving us further into the arms of agritech giants and synthetic food labs. Say hello to lab-grown meat and cricket protein — because that’s the “future” they’ve decided you deserve. 💸 $100,000 — And Still Not Enough In 13 U.S. states, making $100,000 a year — once the gold standard of the American Dream — doesn’t even cover basic expenses. We were told that printing trillions of dollars during COVID would be “temporary.” That the debt wouldn’t matter. That supply chains would fix themselves. That inflation was “transitory.” They lied. Again. The U.S. government has added more to the debt in the last 36 months than it did in the first 200 years of its existence. What you're witnessing now is the bill coming due. And it’s not Congress or the Fed who’ll pay it. You will. 🕰 Historical Echoes: Weimar 2.0? Remember the Weimar Republic? Before Hitler took power, Germany’s currency collapsed, meat became unaffordable, vegetables skyrocketed, and the middle class was annihilated. Sound familiar? Hyperinflation + political instability + mass layoffs radical outcomes. And guess what comes next? The same thing that always comes next when people are desperate: Nationalism Authoritarianism Civil unrest Only this time, it won’t be black-and-white propaganda posters. It'll be AI-controlled financial systems, digital currencies, and biometric surveillance. The tools of tyranny are already built. They’re just waiting for the right crisis to be deployed. 💣 The Consequences of Complacency This didn’t happen overnight. We allowed our economy to be financialized into oblivion. We let the Fed become a shadow government. We bailed out the billionaires in 2008, 2020, and 2023 — while Main Street got evicted. And now, we’re out of room. The layoffs? They’re permanent. The price hikes? They’re structural. The "American Dream"? It’s been repo’d. The system isn't broken — it's been hijacked. And unless we wake up, organize, and opt out — they’ll finish the job. 🔚 The Bottom Line: What you're seeing isn't a recession. It's the managed decline of a nation — dismantled piece by piece, under the guise of economic “realities.” Prepare like your future depends on it — because it does. Grow food. Reduce debt. Build local. Exit systems that treat you like a cog. The collapse isn't coming. It's here.

Serial Layoffs, Soaring Prices, and the Engineered Collapse of America’s Middle Class

Bill Brocius Aug 21

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