Enserfification, It’s No Accident

“Oh my God!  Movable printed type!  We must keep this from the serfs lest they gain literacy and threaten the landed gentry!” – Family Guy

Bernie in a bar:  “Free drinks for everyone!  Now, who is buying?” (meme as-found)

“The moral and Constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy to our people.” – Ron Paul

Okay, maybe Ron was a bit of a downer, but if he could see the average millennial staring at blankly at their TikTok® feed while wondering if ramen counts as a vegetable, he’d probably nod and say:

“Told ya so.”

America isn’t only circling the drain, it’s installing a fancy gold-plated one, imported from China, because why not add insult to bankruptcy?

If Hunter Biden was a duck, what would he do?  Crack.

Let’s talk about “Enserfification.”  While I cannot find any reference to this word (I did find “enserfify”) on the Internet, A.I. claims that it’s okay, so that’s good enough for me even though Word™ draws an angry, squiggly line under it.

Enserfification is not quite feudalism, where the lord hands you a pitchfork and a plot of mud and some ugly facial moles in exchange for your firstborn.  Nope, it’s sneakier.  It’s the slow, corporate/bureaucratic boil where the middle class gets squeezed until the middle class plops, slowly mind you, into the ranks of a serf.

Let’s face it, the middle class is shrinking, and those that are in it are not building dreams anymore.  They’re just trying not to default on the electric bill for their bread and circuses Netflix™ indoctrination videos.

What do you get when you cross a polar bear with a seal?  A polar bear.  (meme as-found)

And the statistics?  They are brutal.

Those under 40 with a STEM degree and a car payment, life is hitting them like a tax audit from the IRS’s agent that they hired directly from the DMV because she regularly made Marine Drill Instructors cry.

Let’s start with jobs.

Remember when Mom and Dad said, “Get a degree in engineering or computers, kid, and you’ll be set for life”?  Yeah, that was before the H-1B visa tsunami turned Silicon Valley into a global import mall with accents thicker than a deaf Russian that learned English in South Carolina.

In 2024 alone, the U.S. approved a whopping 399,395 H-1B petitions—basically a free-for-all green light for companies to hire cheaper talent from abroad instead of the fresh-faced Americans they just saddled with $100k in student debt.  Oh, and did anyone mention that these invaders can bring their spouses, and that they can work, too?

That 400,000 number is up 3% from the year before, because nothing says “meritocracy” like importing coders who mainly lie about their degree and qualifications.

The other night The Mrs. asked, “Are you even listening to me?” which I thought was an odd way to start a conversation.

Recent American college grads with physics degrees are sitting at a 7.8% unemployment rate, second-worst among majors.

Computer engineering?  7.5%.

Computer science?  6.1%.

These aren’t lazy trust-funders: these are they (mainly) guys who aced calculus while discovering new an unique ways to self-administer caffeine, only to hit the job market and find a “park’s closed, moose out front should have told you” meme.  Why hire Johnny from Boston when you can snag Judgish from Bangalore for 30% less, besides, he’s the nephew of the HR lady?

I do know that the Canadian Army used to communicate via moose code.

Enserfification Step One:  Lock the gates on opportunity, import infinity Indians, then blame the peasants for not climbing the walls.

Let’s move to step two . . . .

Cars are the great American symbol of freedom in the postwar era:  cruising the open road with the wind in your hair and AC/DC® describing how to Shoot to Thrill.  Me?  Back then when I listened to AC/DC™, the neighbors did, too.

Except now, that freedom costs more than a down payment on a small ranch would have in the 1980s, and I’m not exaggerating:  the average new car price in 2025 is now solidly over $50,000.  I have no idea who is buying cars at these prices, outside of federal governments, state governments, local governments and corporations.

Back in 2000, you could snag a reliable sedan for under $20,000.  Oh, and that number is adjusted for inflation.  But now, most people don’t buy cars with any view towards the price, they look at the monthly payment, so adding leather seats on a . . . pickup . . . becomes the norm.

My chickens really enjoyed the coupe, though.

Today?  Forget it.  Folks are hanging onto their rustbuckets like they’re family heirlooms, because the average age of vehicles on U.S. roads hit a record 12.8 years in 2025.  The newest Wilder family vehicle is nearly a decade old.

Why the delay?  First, value.  Most of the new cars are loaded with crap that I don’t value.  Heated seats?  A.I.-enabled cup holders?  Sound systems that have monthly fees.?

The idea is to turn a “here, you bought a car, it’s yours” to “here, you bought a limited-term license to have title to a car that will require $47.50 monthly so it will report your driving habits and destinations to your insurance company without your consent”.

Me?  I’d much rather own a 2012 Civic™ with rubber floormats and a passenger-side electric mirror that doesn’t work.

This is Enserfification Step Two: Make mobility a luxury, so you’re stuck in your 30-minute commute hell, pondering if that cheap Prius® with just one dead owner from Craigslist© is haunted. (Spoiler alert:  it is.)  Just like the meme says:  in 2030 you’ll own nothing, but you will represent a reliable monthly income stream because to the corporations and governmental entities, that’s what you are.  Which is?

A serf.

I could go on and on, but I’ve been wordy recently, and you get the picture.  I detail housing and our lack of choices there (killed by legal and illegal immigration), federal, state, and local laws that never seem to get rolled back but keep moving in the direction where everything that isn’t mandatory will be prohibited and the other aspects of the subscription economy where a million companies want.

The only two times you can have too much ammo is if you’re on fire or if you’re drowining.

The middle class isn’t shrinking naturally.  It is being pulverized into gig-economy paste on purpose on the twin altars of multiculturalism and corporate profits.  Their solution:  bread and circuses, updated for the smartphone age.

How do they make the middle class go quietly onto that good night?

  • Cell phones that ping into dopamine oblivion,
  • YouTube® rabbit holes that make three hours vanish like your savings, and
  • Netflix queues longer than the line at the DMV.

It’s genius, really.  Why allow the serfs to revolt when they can be made to doomscroll through cat videos and true crime docs that make their problems seem quaint?  Distract the serfs and they’ll never notice the chains.

Enserfification isn’t inevitable.

It’s engineered, and requires our consent to win.  Don’t patronize businesses that use H-1B employees.  Don’t patronize businesses that are owned by foreigners.

And, yes, ramen is a vegetable.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

45 thoughts on “Enserfification, It’s No Accident”

  1. “Recent American college grads with physics degrees are sitting at a 7.8% unemployment rate, second-worst among majors.”

    Is that Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D.?

    There is not, and for a long while has not been, a great job market for a Bachelor’s in physics. That’s because with a B.S. in physics you are generally not prepared to become a practicing scientist; but you’re usually also not well prepared for a job as, say, a technician at a lab.

    This is well known among those who go for a degree in physics. You learn very early on whether you want to go for a Ph.D., and if not, most people change majors.

    2. My grandson is a student in physics. He does plan to go for a physics degree, however, if he should experience trouble (recommendations, money), there is a backup. I am part of the AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers), and have a lot of networks through which I might be able to help him get a fellowship, job, or – worst case scenario – a job teaching in high school.
      That could get him some cash and some breathing room to re-adjust his career plans, should that be necessary.

      2. I have a friend that get a BS in physics. He later continued to get a PhD in Engineering to erase that black mark ;>)

    3. Same applies to BS chemists. Most companies will now only hire them as technicians. That wasn’t always the case. If you want to do true independent chemistry work these days, you almost have to have a Ph.D.

      Many of my coworkers used to be frustrated by this, particularly as BS engineers came in at much higher salaried professional positions. But a quick look at the curricula explains why. Engineering is applied physics (or chemistry) and skills apply more directly to an employer. The course load is also more heavily focused on engineering classes, whereas physics/chemistry are usually in Arts and Sciences and required to take a lot more art/humanities type classes . Consequently, they don’t get enough chemistry training to be self sufficient in a lab environment.

      If Physics/Chemistry would separate out their programs and put more emphasis on applied job skills that employers can use, then I think B.S. degrees would become highly sought after again.

  2. You left out the fact that H1-B visa holders qualify for govt-assisted housing loans. Wait, what, a 3 year worker gets a 30 year loan? Nod, wink, everyone knows that they are never going back.

    1. See, that’s a regulatory hole that needs to be filled. From what I understand, Trump just made non-citizens ineligible for FHA loans.

  3. It is not possible for American IT workers to avoid competing with IT workers from elsewhere in the world. Keeping foreign competition out just makes America fall behind technologically and lose the next war, like Japan lost to America: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition It was not possible to construct a tariff policy such that Japan could build steam warships to militarily compete with the US, yet also protect inefficient domestic production processes from competition from steam. Tariffs, a tax on better stuff to prevent you from having better stuff, are stupid. The wealthiest places are hubs of free trade like the historical Venice and New York.

    You could have voted for Ron Paul for President, but you didn’t, and you’re now experiencing what you voted for.

    1. It’s pointless to use an esoteric reference to Japan/steamships in an effort to justify free trade. Anyone with two eyes can see the elephant in the room, namely the devastation that free trade has inflicted on the US economy in just the last few decades.

      Libertarians talk about market forces, but never take into account the effects that those market forces have on the intangibles like culture and society. People simply don’t want to live in a polluted community infested with 3rd world criminals just so a CEO can reduce labor costs and line his own pockets.

      We’ve now had 50 years of free trade and “open movement of people/ideas” and most Western countries are now on the verge of civil war as a result. If libertarian ideals actually held true, we should be living in a utopian paradise with all of this open access to rocket scientists. Instead, the only countries doing well are the ones like China that had very protectionist trade policies and had the good sense to limit immigration and actually protect their own culture. Go figure.

      JB

      1. You are blaming libertarianism for the failures of liberal/conservative policies. The devastation comes from: prosecuting victims of violent crimes instead of criminals, creating indentured servitude with H1-B, and transferring tax money from the productive to the unproductive. None of these are libertarian or free trade policies.

      2. Pointing to the wrong thing. Free-trade is good. One-side barrier trade is destructive. The idiots in GOV reduced USA barriers while allowing worldwide barriers against American products. This idiocy is most easily explained by people in GOV being on the take from the foreign GOVs. Just look at the fools that were yelling about Trump putting up defensive tariffs against the abusers.

    2. Except the Indians at least are just frauds. A decade ago, my employer had an idea to hire, in India, a bunch of Indian engineers to get over a crush in a project. He asked me to go over there for a month to introduce, evaluate (down-select), and intro train the guys for the effort. Sounded great. The company puts employees up in nice hotels and covers nice meals at good place; only 1 drink/day unfortunately.
      Then I researched what Indian trained engineers were like. Their excuses for universities are abysmal. Even the local companies will not hire 85% of the graduates. Universities are fraud that set up for 4 yrs taking student’s money and just disappears.
      Just check out the Indian tech instruction website called ByJus.com. Explanations are nonsensical and usually wrong. Unfortunately, asking a tech question will frequently list the site first.
      No, a company is an idiot to hire an Indian-trained Indian. Other references say the same about Arabs.
      Hell, even in the USA, 10% of the computer science grads are useless morons that somehow work their way to a degree. So I’m quite surprised the CS graduates have only a 6.1% unemployment. BTW: these guys stand out with the stupid haircuts, coloring, and tats. They shouldn’t work emptying trash cans. Actually, I’ve known a lot of my company’s janitor’s, they are nice people.

    3. No, it doesn’t, because the tech can cross borders, and the country isn’t a company. I’d rather have less wealth and more of a cohesive nation.

      And I did vote for Ron a time or two.

  4. If only you had a little box that you could type a number into, and talk to anyone else in the US. Then you could organize to stop politicians giving your tax dollars to your competitors.

    1. organize to stop politicians giving your tax dollars to your competitors

      Hahahhahhahahahhhhaa. Got a good laugh from that, it’s pretty good satire…

      Seriously though, you think ordinary people, who just want to live their lives, can dictate to POLITICIANS? Did you miss the whole thing about the Deep State and how the political class stays in power?

      Did we want to be taxed on liquor production? An income tax? Standing army? Did we ask the socialists to take over our entire government after WWI and saddle us with a thousand new agencies to suck up our money?

      We lost our ability to influence the hogs at the trough shortly after the Constitution was ratified. Short of challenging them to a duel, and that wasn’t very practical on a large scale.

      ——-
      The idea that letting all the indians take jobs from Americans will cause us to fall behind technologically is ludicrous too. Name three tech innovations that came out of india since the start of the Silicon Age. H1-B visa scabs here don’t innovate. They barely produce usable output, and then only in groups. The only ones benefiting from H1-Bs are the indian placement companies. Everyone else is deluded.

      MAYBE we’ll see a shift from producing barely usable crap to being able to produce stuff that works and is even world class, the way the Japanese did with our outsourced manufacturing, and now the chinese have begun to do, given enough time, but do we need another ocean of crap while waiting for all of india to figure out how to produce something better?

      I think “not”.

      nick

      1. If elections don’t matter, why do political parties bother to create fraudulent results? Now, if you are willing to admit voting is a sham because 90% of humans are non-player-characters (NPCs) programmed by whoever is running the mainstream media, then I will agree voting can’t make a big difference. But as long as you still believe voting is moral, you’re morally stuck with having the representatives and policies you’ve voted for.

        As a libertarian, I know government is a monkey trap. Voters reach into the small hole to get the tax-funded treat, then are not willing to open their fist to get their hand back out.

  5. Right as rain John. All we need now is the great uniter to set up his statue and it all becomes a Biblical closer. IMHO it’s 50/50 on whether there is a fight first

  7. I stopped buying new cars awhile ago. Too expensive and too many geegaws I don’t want.

  8. Back in the late ’90s I was hired by an attorney to do a Phase II environmental assessment on a C-Store in Greensboro, NC. Buyer was a Jugdish H1-B. Submitted it, got paid by some USDA entity through the attorney.

    Found out the following about the loan:

    – 2% fixed interest rate for the life of the loan
    – 30 year amortization
    – Secured by the property, no other assets
    – No down payment

    For us regular Americans back then (bought a commercial building in Charlotte for my biz in 2000):

    Prime+1% with a quarterly variable rate. 20% down. 10-year amortization, with re-finance at 5-year intervals. 3 years of personal and business tax returns signed by a CPA. Secured by my Schwab account that had to be 100% of the purchase price.

    This is why Jugdishes own C-Stores.

  9. White Americans were simply too difficult to deal with so They decided to replace us. We all know the steps and the story. The real question is whether the frog will realize it is boiling to death and jump out, and since the frogs in this scenario have 100 million AR-15s….well you can understand why they might be nervous.

  10. Don’t patronize businesses that use H-1B employees.

    Unfortunately, this is not always an option. You, dutiful taxpayer that you surely are, underwrite the U.S. military, which buys a lotta boolits and such from yuge defense contractors, including my former Big Three employer. I retired a little early from my engineering career, seeing the writing on the wall. But before I jetted, it was painfully obvious which way the wind was blowing (from Southeast Asia, as it happens, and boy howdy, did it stink.)

    Time was when corporations dealing in military contracts had to employ U.S. citizens and none other. The 80s and 90s were happy, English-speaking times in my field, which was heavily populated by awkward, severely myopic nerds and nary a Hindu Nuffin’ was seen. All that changed with the turn of the millennium, as a result of the great hue and cry which went up from employers such as mine, claiming a critical shortage of native-born nerdy boys in the employment pool. It’s been a brahma bull rush of Bangalorians ever since.

  11. My age is telling me I need to spend more time watching the swirling around the drain, and not trying to swim. If I’m lucky, I’ll have a lawn chair to sit on, an adult beverage, and some old rock to listen to while I shout encouragement.

  12. As for the car situation, that average price includes a LOT of SUVs.
    If you buy a sedan, the price drops significantly. When I bought my Hyundai at the beginning of 2023, I paid just a smidge over $25,000. I lowered the amount financed by about $2000 with my trade-in of a VERY unreliable old Lincoln (spent more time at the dealers than the salesmen).
    About 6 months ago, my husband realized we had some extra cash, and decided to put it on the mortgage. I talked him out of it, pointing out that we were paying 2.6% on our mortgage, whereas the car payment was 10%.
    As a result, we will be paying it off about 6 months early.
    When we do, we will be adding that same amount to my husband’s car payment (about the same interest rate, but more expensive – it’s an SUV).
    I learned a lot from a colleague who was wiping out her debt with the Dave Ramsey method. The so-called Snowball Method is easy to set up, easy to stick to, and you see progress early, rather than later.
    Leasing a car/SUV is for Losers.

  13. My newest car, is a 2003 Hyundai. The nicest car is a 1995 Buick Roadmaster (powered by the legendary LS1). My truck is a very ugly ’86 Toyota, with Toyota reliability.
    STILL with no payments, except the usual DMV, ins.

  16. Regarding the indian/pakistani/mexican/other invaders invading the US, and fouling up just about everything you could name, Racism. It will be the tool that Whites either reclaim America, or lose it. In case anyone gets triggered, our opposition uses it, relentlessly.

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