burnt-resistor
5 hours ago
Red scares, possible Business Plot, Powell memo, etc. led to corporate and high bracket tax cuts, trickle-down neoliberalism, political-capital collusion and corruption, widening inequality, and decline in social trust that undid the incentives and conditions that nurtured and expanded the middle class post-WW2. It wasn't socialist "free stuff" (that capital owners shower/ed on themselves while taking away healthcare from the poor), scapegoat groups, unions, high taxes, or any other lies or misrepresentations.
There's only everyone vs. obscenely wealthy, their enablers, and the foolish proximity to wealth wannabes.
metalman
4 hours ago
it's the enablers and syncophants that create and maintain bubbles around the ultra wealthy that appear to be exciting and creativly progressive, but in reality are just mildly subsisdised playgrounds that serve as distractions that the unwary will compete to be part of. remember to invoice for everything! if and when you might get caught up in some performative project