Crashing.

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Coffee helped.  Not enough to last the day.  Fighting it, losing.  I don't think I'll be able to stay awake very much longer.  If I make it to noon, I'll be doing good.  Don't think so, will try until I fail.

UPS says a few things should be in today.  I have doubts, being Saturday.  If they have hired seasonal extras, to this point, it hasn't shown.  Though, maybe they aren't bringing them in, this year, until much later?  That could be.  Regardless of what some suggest, I don't think sales have been good.  Not in stores, not online.  No one has money.

Those who are working have children living at home.  Even if they are working, they simply aren't earning much, and have few prospects for actual advancement.  Most know they are in a bind.  Money just isn't there anymore.  Well, add on credit already mostly tapped?  Yeah.

You can't overcharge for food, housing, energy, and undercut kids, plus pay equal pay for unequal work, and expect life to work out.  Those getting underpaid and overworked simply slip out the back door and leave companies to hire more and more inferior workers to cover more and more demand for actual function, with fewer and worse employees to choose from.

They say six million men have dropped out of the employment rolls.  My guess is that was so 2020, maybe 2021.  Now?  Twenty or thirty million men just aren't there.  They can get buy with bits of work, without being daily drivers, without a lot of things.  Just... dropping out.  Equal pay for unequal work is going to destroy the economy.  On top of everything else going on.  Men can live on near nothing.  Can the economy live on near nothing, as to labor?  I guess we'll find out.  Women did say they wanted to be equal.  When everyone is in mud huts, everyone will be equal.  From Gates to Musk to Biden.  And it is coming.

They really thought they could just keep draining some dry, and giving that to others.  I think that is completely at an end.  Oh, they have stores tucked away.  Will last for a while.  Then... then hitting bottom.  Not even an option at this point.  Looking forward to it?  Not it, specifically.  What may come after, perhaps.  They wanted a reset.  I don't think they planned well.  Thought they could give that, wouldn't have to endure it.  But, like an idiot who cuts the branch they are standing on, closer to the tree than they are, things aren't working out.  But they just keep doubling down.

Later.