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weird how everything just seems to cost more but nobody I know seems to be getting paid any more and yet the companies that own the selling of all the things keep posting record profits, very curious
It's almost like no labor value is actually being drives from the exchange value
All that matters is the petite bourgeoise base of 30% that vote for him.
“A third threat comes from the potential social backlash. To use Rawls-ian analysis, the invisible hand stops working. Perhaps one reason that societies allow plutonomy, is because enough of the electorate believe they have a chance of becoming a Plutoparticipant. Why kill it off, if you can join it? In a sense this is the embodiment of the “American dream”. But if voters feel they cannot participate, they are more likely to divide up the wealth pie, rather than aspire to being truly rich.“
“Could the plutonomies die because the dream is dead, because enough of society does not believe they can participate? The answer is of course yes. But we suspect this is a threat more clearly felt during recessions, and periods of falling wealth, than when average citizens feel that they are better off. There are signs around the world that society is unhappy with plutonomy – judging by how tight electoral races are. But as yet, there seems little political fight being born out on this battleground.“
“Our overall conclusion is that a backlash against plutonomy is probable at some point. However, that point is not now. So long as economies continue to grow, and enough of the electorates feel that they are benefiting and getting rich in absolute terms, even if they are less well off in relative terms, there is little threat to Plutonomy in the U.S., UK, etc.“
The predatory, parasitic 1% Epstein Class are the only real enemy.
People starting to realize it right now.
Indeed, I find it's always so revealing to read these things because it makes it crystal clear that the capital owning class knows they're fighting a class war. They have far better understanding of Marxism than the working majority in the west.
70% is pretty dire. We’re in for some crazy times.
this isn't directed at you
no shit
Totally sustainable system
MFW the public still has way too much to gain emotionally from watching porky stuff his face as we all starve.
Yeah, we’re starving and many of us never get to start our lives. But at least we reminded those yucky undesirables white men are the boss! We’re just like porky when you think about it! /S
seeing this same headline with a higher percentage every year 
The food: meatslop battered in refined field corn, which somehow needs to be both cooked by someone else and delivered by someone else
The housing: McMansions in the exurbs
The healthcare: worst value per unit cost in the world, half of it just farming out pill prescriptions for big pharma, treating the symptoms of "Western diseases"
Add on a car payment of $700 a month (excl. gas, insurance, etc.) and there you have it, Americans are all struggling.
And yet we still haven’t risen up together to topple the government so I guess we will just keep being shit on for the next…forever.
Americans are the most docile people on this planet.
one of us just tried to kill the president and it didn't work very well. He even travelled across the entire country to do it, which is an insurmountable barrier for the 70% of us who can't afford food, rent, and the doctor.
come over here and do it if it's so easy.
It should be obvious that adventuring like that wouldn't accomplish anything productive. In fact, that would only be used to justify more repression and accelerate the slide into fascism. It was an absolutely idiotic act. What should be happening is that people should be unionizing, creating mutual aid networks, and building a militant labour movement akin to what we saw with MAS in Bolivia. You'd think not being able to afford shit would be a reason to start becoming more communal, but I guess rugged individualism is just too deeply ingrained in American DNA.
you gotta aim way lower than that. get five strangers to wear masks indoors in public and check in on them after a month.
right, the US is completely atomized and it's everyone for themselves
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