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>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
by closedloop129 4y 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?
- JetSpiegel 4y agoThey are too busy working to pay the inflated rents that fuel the same elite.
- sinenomine 4y agoPretty 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-visa-foreign-workers https://www.axios.com/2019/12/29/trump-att-outsourcing-h1b-v... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshoring#United_States 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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Fire_(novel) dream.