How Long Should the US Government Sustain an Economically Unsustainable Middle Class?

Can you please define this "economic class more in line with what their job skills are worth on the globalized market". Are you suggesting that the working class in first world countries should work for $2 a day?

With regards to the mechanization/technology issue that you're talking about, this is going to have an effect on the entire global labor market over time. Or in other words, there will be no jobs "in line with their job skills" and what then?

To me it sounds like you're talking about a class of homelessness that will encompass 90% of the worlds population sooner or later, and that's not going to be good for anyone... that's basically the entire world economy (as we know it) seizing to exist, and that's obviously not going to be a peaceful/non-violent process.

The reality of the situation is that Capitalism is imploding on itself.
It was to be expected because greed is unsustainable.
Humanity needs to rethink the way it operates and what its goals are.
The word "equilibrium" comes to mind.

 

"Humanity" is fooling itself and isn't going to reach some magical ephiphany where rich people voluntarily give up their vast wealth out of some false sense of guilt instilled by populist demagogues.

It isn't the rich people's flaw that they chase profit, it is their job.

 

Why can we afford to sustain an economically unsustainable War on Drugs?

 

I believe there was once an Indian reservation in northern AZ in which they were letting long-term leases on Indian land in which outsiders could build homes and enjoy the great area where it was located. Hundreds or thousands of people over the years leased land and began building homes from moderate to mansions. Suddenly, the Indians decided to cancel the leases and gave everyone a very short notice to vacate. So when litigation failed they started moving out but many of them held a little celebration in which after removing their personal belongings proceeded to burn the house to the ground! Many of these were 5000-10000 square foot type mansions!

I suggest that when the lower and middle classes believe they can forcibly take most of the wealth earned by others, at some point those others are going to burn all of the cash they would lose in the wealth redistribution.

The concept of wealth redistribution is nothing but a form of self-serving behavior...

 

I think you're a bit confused. Welfare programs don't exist to support the middle class, they exist to support the lower class. Rhetoric aside, things like mortgage deductions and college grants support the middle class. The programs that support the middle class tend to be the most popular because, even though they are mostly used by a minority economic group, they are available to all.