Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cmdshiftf4 2025 days ago
Interesting. I'm not sure I agree and for one reason: the Western governments have essentially shown throughout the past couple of decades, and especially in the past year, that they will do almost anything to keep the rich getting richer.

They're 100% not going to allow class consciousness to form again, as we saw the beginnings of in the Occupy Wall Street era, so there's some risk of them manufacturing further racial grief to keep the plebs at one another's necks but the can't let that escalate to the point where it'd threaten the bottom line either.

So much easier to maintain the strategy of demoralization, distraction and vapid consumerism.