cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20368770

It’s easy to understand if you realize that America is essentially a corporation rather than a country, and that country is only representing its shareholders.

In case you’re confused - if you’re not rich and powerful, you’re not a shareholder. You’re an employee or a commodity or an expense, and you exist to enrich the shareholder class.

  • SamvegaEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    They instilled a sense that helping others makes you dumb and gullible. Strong, smart people get theirs and fuck everyone else.

    That sense must surely have been already there, because you couldn’t instil it easily if most people genuinely believed otherwise.