• Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Because corporate profits have gone unchecked for far too long and Wallstreet is sprinting us towards home ownership only being accessible to companies they own and all Americans are renters.

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      8 months ago

      And they made fun of us in the 90’s for saying the USA was full of “wage slaves.”

      Who’s laughing now? Only the wealthy.

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    8 months ago

    Because food and rent costs so much that they have to turn to credit to cover what their meager pay does not?

    They stopped playing these commercials 30 years ago but the situation just kept getting worse anyway.

    The people in debt now don’t even have nice things like a pool.

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    8 months ago

    Because there was a class war that we didn’t bother to seriously fight and the oligarchs won. Now comes the pressure cooker time for we plebes. How that ends is always a rough timeline to live through.