60% is a majority, right? The article was working really hard to downplay it. “The bottom 60%” that’s more than half the country… social unrest will be the least of their worries
you all best buckle up, because it’s gonna get a lot worse
Credit is doing a lot of heavy lifting. If credit seizes up, then it all falls apart. That’s why interest rates have been held low for so long.
Looks like it’s time to eat the rich.
They have too much power and resources now. We aren’t going to get a better quality of life through peaceful means.
We need magats to get angry. They’re the reason why this shit show is still going on.
There’s a relatively nonviolent solution America can do, but it would be complex to organize. Stop. Anyone that can stop working for even a day, or a week. Just pick a starting point and stop working, buying, consuming. They can’t fire everyone.
I’d love to see it but I think they could outlast us and would love at the chance to buy up failing small businesses and property during that time.
But the whole point of that time is to actually change stuff, so they wouldn’t make nearly as much profit, and maybe not even get to keep it.
It would be like buying a car that’s cheap because it’s on fire. They need us but we don’t need them.
I agree. Only 5% at most would follow through, and most of that 5% are non-vital employees, you don’t even have a union culture to organise this, and the best the democrats have done is stay silent.
Again, I agree, this would work if we organise it.
Also nothing new, they did a big news report in Reno like 20 years ago and cost of living was about double what the average income was for the city. You had a two income family or roommates, or live at home.
But you have millionaires who play kids games on tv and billionaire celebrities made famous by their looks or money, that go on to play government in real life in all your major political offices. Multi millionaire actors and starving paramedics. What an advanced society.
Which country has the highest millionaires in the world?
The U.S
IMO gini coefficient is more comprehensive. Some millionaires like doctors actually earned it. But you can’t become a billionaire without being a parasite.
People have bee saying this for a while now… this isn’t news anymore. Why is he still alive?
It is almost like we are being scammed.
America was a great experiment in maxing out capitalism and rugged individualism. Now all other countries know how it will end and to oust any politician even hinting at doing the same.
America and the UK, together they show the world what not to do. Conservatism and oligarchs are poisons that kill civilizations.
I really think we need a sublemmy dedicated to specifically tracking the high stakes competition between the US and UK to spectacularly faceplant in the stupidest possible fashion.
It is a very close competition so far and there have been a lot of upsets in the sense that it has made us all upset that the world is burning.
There was a time when I thought the 2016 Brexit referendum was going to be the dumbest political story of the year. Then the US said “hold my watery beer”.
“…Stupidity, Phobia, Greed, Wrath, and Traditional Values…from your powers combined, I am Captain Conservative!”
I like your optimism, but sadly I cannot share it…
To convince more people, it may help to have an analysis that doesn’t include celebratory dinners, eating out, physical television, etc. The inclusion of those things are either a drop in the bucket or have good enough rationales, but too many Americans are too dumb to accept that.
If Americans stopped doing that the economy would crash, people would lose their jobs, and most people wouldn’t be able to afford to live.
So it’s the same thing in the end.
That’s because we haven’t cut taxes for the rich quiiiite enough yet
Those trickle down economics, I’m still waiting on them since the fucker beat Decocus.
Trump is certainly trickling a golden shower upon humanity. The guy is an ass, and will tell us to thank him for the opportunity to eat the few rancid seeds found in his shit.
Of course, a true kingdom requires impoverished serfs. Welcome to techno-feudalism.
Serfs
No shit….
We knew this since the 70s
Yeah, they oaved iver their income inequality fore the past 50 years by just letting everyone take on more debt. Our debt based economy is about to crash in on itself
