Prepare to be cast into the Thunderdome

(If you're not already there)

A 2013 4chan comment presciently describing the deliberate, controlled descent into neoliberal feudalism:

Under this system, the general population will get poorer and poorer, with more and more crime, homelessness and filth, until only the ultra-rich will be able to avoid being cast out into what is colloquially known as the “thunderdome” by living in armed, gated compounds, much like rich South Africans and Brazilians do today.  In the 90s a middle class Al Bundy type could afford a house, wife, kids on a shoe salesman budget:

Sure it was a television show, but it was representative and unremarkable for the time.

Today to have that lifestyle would cost $250,000 or more in most areas, which is 92% household income. Those requirements will only go higher over time, with more and more cast out ruthlessly into the thunderdome.

That top 8% will over time turn into top 0.8% and then into top 0.08%. What is left of the middle and upper-middle class today are servile, shirking slaves, putting their head in the sand as they desperately try to hold onto their quality of life without rocking the boat, studiously ignoring dissident politics and staying safely within the Overton Window. But almost all of these people are doomed and will be cast into the thunderdome sooner or later.

Once in the thunderdome, you will live in dirty, disgusting areas, surrounded by weird looking people with odd sounds, bad smells and an extremely heightened level of danger. You’ll hear the Islamic call to prayer blaring from speakers from a nearby mosque, which will be next to a new (but already becoming dilapidated) $100 million housing project. The demographics will be straight out of the cantina scene from Star Wars. Drugs and trash and hypodermic needles will litter the street, with a homeless tent on every corner. Your kids will learn nothing in school except to hate western civilization, their parents and how to turn into transsexuals. Police will do nothing about real crime, but are on alert to arrest you on any pretext at all.

Living in the thunderdome is and will be akin to Hell on Earth, and our globohomo overlords want it for everyone except themselves.