[nephihaha]

"Of course now in the later stage of capitalism, these execs, investors, etc can just do full-on mask slips."

Just a reminder: we've supposedly been in/near late/end stage capitalism for over a hundred and fifty years now. Marx was proposing this back at the end of the nineteenth century.

[cobalt]

I think starting in the 30s and esp after WW2/cold war era helped reset it somewhat. It started to pick back up in the 80s and into overdrive with the internet

[nephihaha]

It was supposed to collapse in the 1930s. It's a bit like the street preacher, if you say "the end is nigh" often enough, one day you'll be right.