My favorite comment on the article is “The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money."

  • hector@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    What is your point? Mine is in the post war years we achieved the most prosperous working class the world has ever known, and the most progressive taxation which had no small part in that, and in the ensuing decades brought reason and justice even more to the economy, on a scale unprecedented before that, and the rest of the western world followed.

    That in 1971 that all changed and they’ve taken that all away piece by piece in an organized campaign(s). So what are you even talking about?

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      2 hours ago

      Mostly for white people, and mostly because the US had built out an enormous industrial base to win WWII, and also was in the unique position of not having been destroyed by the war.

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        2 hours ago

        Which is the typical ad hominem to respond to the unanswerable charge that the rich have taken our middle class lifestyle and replaced it with poverty, reduced even the wealthy to just getting by status. Use emotional arguments, and slander, to obscure the issue.

        The one here, that because injustice existed it doesn’t count that we all had a higher standard of living that the rich took away from us, doesn’t make any sense though does it?

        Explain to me, how it negates recognizing the rich have taken from working people, because society wasn’t egalitarian when working people extracted the highest standard of living ever?