The Great American Gutting: Layoffs, Inflation, and the Controlled Demolition of the Middle Class

Let’s not dress this up: 2025 is the year the technocratic elite stopped pretending they need the American worker. Layoffs aren’t just a symptom—they’re a signal. The engine room of the U.S. economy is being flooded deliberately, and the crew is being thrown overboard while the captain laughs from the lifeboat. "Efficiency" Is the Knife—Not the Cure The Economic Collapse Blog points out a sinister truth: every round of layoffs triggers a stock price jump. Wall Street doesn’t just tolerate layoffs—it demands them. When Intel announces 30,000 workers are being gutted, it’s not treated as a tragedy; it’s a celebration on the trading floor. Let’s not forget: Intel got billions from the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan grift masquerading as “national competitiveness.” And what did taxpayers get? Pink slips. This is economic betrayal codified into law. Microsoft, not a struggling company by any stretch, has cut over 19,000 jobs in 2025 alone. Why? Because management can. Because “the market likes it.” The incentives are aligned for destruction. This isn’t capitalism. It’s corporate cannibalism. This Isn’t Just Tech—This Is Structural Collapse It’s not just white-collar engineers getting shredded. Construction—a blue-collar mainstay—is collapsing too. In Texas and Florida, up to 87% of builders report layoffs among their peers. That’s not a hiccup. That’s a warning siren. You’d think in the middle of a historic housing shortage, there’d be an army of carpenters and electricians working around the clock. Instead, they’re on the curb. Why? Because the real estate market has turned into a Ponzi scheme fueled by institutional investors and interest rate roulette. Builders can't sell overpriced homes to a broke public. The foundation of American labor is being hollowed out from both ends. High skill, low skill—it doesn’t matter. If you're not an algorithm or a dividend, you're expendable. Inflation: The Final Kick in the Teeth While people lose their jobs, the price of everything climbs. Coffee futures are up nearly 50% in six weeks. Ground beef? Record high: $6.32 per pound. And that’s just what they admit to. A nursing student tells a BBC reporter, “Prices are really drastically high.” That might be the understatement of the year. For lower-income families, inflation isn’t an inconvenience—it’s an eviction notice taped to the refrigerator. Food, fuel, rent—everything’s becoming unlivable. And instead of meaningful relief, you’re offered synthetic bug protein and prepackaged sludge from corporate labs. And if you die from the stress? Don’t worry—14 states now legalize turning your body into compost. No, that’s not satire. It’s state policy. You’re worth more as soil than as a citizen. The Corporate State's Endgame: Automated, Atomized, and Obedient This isn’t a bad business cycle. It’s a designed transition from human labor to machine-led control. Layoffs are phase one. Phase two is automation. The final stage is universal dependence on state-corporate handouts. You can’t unionize if your job is an API. You can’t strike if your replacement is a server rack. And you certainly can't resist if your bank account, food supply, and medical records are tied to a programmable digital ID. Welcome to "efficiency." Counterarguments? Let’s Pulverize Them “These are necessary cost cuts.” Spare us. When companies are swimming in cash and still cutting jobs, it’s not about survival—it’s about extraction. The investor class is looting the system before it collapses. “The economy is still growing!” If you call asset inflation, government bailouts, and corporate buybacks "growth," sure. But the average American household is worse off today than they were in 2019. Wages can't catch inflation, savings are gone, and debt is ballooning. “New jobs will be created in tech’s next wave!” That’s fantasy. AI isn’t going to create millions of stable jobs—it’s going to consolidate power in the hands of a few monopolistic platforms that need fewer humans than ever. What This Means for Americans: Get Ready or Get Buried If you still believe Washington, Wall Street, or Silicon Valley is coming to your rescue, you're not just naïve—you're in danger. They’re not trying to fix the system. They’re executing a reset—one that leaves the middle class extinct and the elite untouched. Here's your playbook: Build local resilience. Learn how to grow food, fix things, and form networks that don’t require Amazon or Chase Bank. Preserve your assets. Exit the traditional financial system wherever possible. Diversify out of fiat. Think hard about where your money is parked. Understand what's coming. If you're not preparing for greater surveillance, food insecurity, and digital control systems—you will be steamrolled by them. This isn't fearmongering. This is forecasting—based on the facts the mainstream refuses to face. America isn’t declining. It’s being dismantled, piece by piece, by people who profit from its failure. And unless the people on the losing end—you—start acting like you're in a war for your future, the next round of layoffs won’t be a headline. It’ll be your name on the list.

The Great American Gutting: Layoffs, Inflation, and the Controlled Demolition of the Middle Class

Bill Brocius Sep 18

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