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by XaoDaoCaoCao 2547 days ago
It's more that people are starting to recognize that we're more poor than a decade ago in terms of buying power AND unemployment is closer to 25% than some ludicrous politicized value.

When you shove apes deeper into the pits of the dominance hierarchies and feed them garbage, you're going to have resentment.

Along those lines, capital has been concentrating ever more into a smaller slice of the population while cutting the value of the humble pile of capital the average US citizen has. I don't believe in wealth as a zero sum game but I do believe in hyper-predator agents steering the system for more ill-begotten gains. Which becomes a zero sum game...