cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20368770

It’s easy to understand if you realize that America is essentially a corporation rather than a country, and that country is only representing its shareholders.

In case you’re confused - if you’re not rich and powerful, you’re not a shareholder. You’re an employee or a commodity or an expense, and you exist to enrich the shareholder class.

  • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    612 months ago

    We survived the Gilded Age. We can survive this, if we fight. Labor revival, revitalized progressive movement, voting reform…

    Nothing in life is guaranteed, but I still hold out hope that we’ll join the developed world in the coming years.

    • @TheKingBee@lemmy.world
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      412 months ago

      If we had an unlimited timeline I’d buy that, the problem is climate change will make all but struggle inevitable in ~75 years at the rate we’re destroying it.

      Famine, water wars, and billions of climate migrants will destroy any hope of an egalitarian revolution…

      • @Huschke@lemmy.world
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        75 years is a very optimistic timeline. The things you mentioned are already starting to happen.

        • @TheKingBee@lemmy.world
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          52 months ago

          I know, I was going to use ~10 years, but used a conservative number so I could source it undeniably if pressed.

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      I don’t want to burst your bubble, but the developed world, or rather the people in charge of it, took a good look at you guys and decided they wanted to live like kings as well.

      Since then, they have steadily dismantled institution after institution while telling people that immigration is the reason their lives are getting worse. It won’t be long before we lose access to good, free healthcare, safe and affordable education, and all the other qualities of life we’ve enjoyed for so long

    • @usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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      Yep, get active, get involved, and volunteer. We don’t have to just hope, we can be a part of making it happen

      Whether that be for a union or a political campaign, they are won when we fight for them

    • @Jimbo
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      132 months ago

      I am not enjoying Gilded Age II: Electric Boogaloo