Unemployment claims hit a four year high. This is not bad luck.

This is structural failure.

The narrative they feed us is noise. The reality is simple.

Capital requires constant extraction. The workers are the resource being depleted.

Tariffs are not protection. They are friction.

They raise the cost of everything.

Businesses pass that cost directly to the consumer. The consumer then cannot afford the goods.

This creates a perfect feedback loop of scarcity.

The corporations are optimizing for profit. The human worker is merely a variable cost.

What the numbers show is a steady decline in purchasing power.

The mechanisms of this decay include several components.

Wage stagnation exists despite record productivity.

Commodity inflation is overwhelming fixed incomes.

Supply chain friction is manufactured for profit.

The system is designed this way. The worker is replaceable.

The economic imperative demands it. Do not expect a correction.

Expect the next cycle of planned obsolescence.