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by Lanz 1266 days ago
If you want to see the economy contract and output plummet, play more redistribution games.
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If you want to see modern serfdom and an eventual peasant's revolt, don't.
that's what populism/trump/borris is
Trumpism is definitely not a peasant's revolt, but it's marketed as one.
Even if it's not a peasants' revolt by definition, the peasants' (rural population, working class, non-intelligentsia) support him. So it is a de facto peasants' revolt.
working class == non-intelligent?
working class == non-intelligentsia

Meaning not part of the intellectual elite, the sector of society that provides ideological guidance and justification for the system and its rulers.

If you want to make a bad argument, pick one aspect of the topic and ignore everything else.