Sociopathic greed is the root; Covid 19 pulled the mask off when people collectively had a few months to exit the rat race and discover life apart from being constantly ground to dust for some shareholders’ profits.
Of course. American prosperity fell off a cliff around 1980, so the last 40 years or so have just been inertia and grinding the middle class into dust.
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Sociopathic greed is the root; Covid 19 pulled the mask off when people collectively had a few months to exit the rat race and discover life apart from being constantly ground to dust for some shareholders’ profits.
Probably this, but it had been bubbling under the surface for a while.
Of course. American prosperity fell off a cliff around 1980, so the last 40 years or so have just been inertia and grinding the middle class into dust.
Which is roughly where we are now.
Not true! The 90s were great! We signed NAFTA and shipped all our manufacturing jobs overseas!
*Cue Josh Lyman parading through West Wing gloating about globalization
I don’t get you people. Presumably you’re also complaining about Trump tariffs?
You complain when the US signs free-trade agreements, and then you complain when the US closes its borders.
Make it make sense?
It’s all a symptoms of a system that exploits it’s workers, see my original comment.
but … but the grindset!