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by closedloop129 1429 days ago
>What's happened in the USA is that the neoliberals vacuumed all the wealth out of the middle class, so now it's basically posh and prole with a big gap between them.

What is preventing the former middle class proles from reorganizing and creating wealth for themselves?

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Pretty obvious competitive pressure channeled upon middle class by the upper class in the US:

https://www.axios.com/2019/12/29/trump-att-outsourcing-h1b-v...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshoring#United_States

This could be summed up in a certain passe word, and this word is "globalism". There was a moment when the usual suspects were scared: occupy wall street, and colossal media and political resources were spent since then to pacify the mob, redirecting the narrative towards bottomless fractal of idpol.

I guess there is little left to do for (lower-) middle class Americans, except moving to the EU and living the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Fire_(novel) dream.

They are too busy working to pay the inflated rents that fuel the same elite.