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“There’s no proletariat if there’s no Marx”
- Reagan, probably
Trickle down was originally called the Horse and Sparrow theory, because the idea was that if you feed the horses more grain, they’ll be more grain for the sparrows to pick out of its shit.
Almost as bad as the worst interpretation of “trickle down economics” I can think of.
Though it’s interesting to note that the whole concept does not get better however you try to describe it.
I believe the horse and sparrow theory is what the Roman’s did. Clearly that empire is strong today right?
This guy again. He really sucked
Reagan Ruin Everything.
As a general rule, if you want long-term wealth inequality, make sure your people are about as dumb as they are poor.
“If not,” Freeman continued, “we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”
It did turn out that way anyway right
It did, but now they’re in debt and can be used as wage slaves.
Don’t forget - our medical care is also directly tied to us consenting to be wage slaves in most cases too!
Interesting though the article is from 2022. Germany has free education and a resurgent far right, so IDK what effect the educatioin there has had.
It’s a result of growing inequality. Check out Gary’s economics on YouTube. We need to tax wealth, not work.
Even in Germany, far-right sentiments are pretty strongly related to people’s level of education and economic opportunities.
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Most of Europe has a resurgent far-right. And in many countries it’s currently at ~20%, compared to 50% in the US. In other countries the far-right is already governing the country, fully (Italy, Hungary) or partly, unlike in Germany (dodged a bullet this time but let’s not get complacent).
There’s also other aspects besides education that lead to far-right voting, like unemployment and general Strukturschwäche, i.e. lack of all kinds of infrastructure, prevalent in the Eastern part of Germany. Where most AfD voters come from.
30% of Americans voted for Krasnov, and not even all Krasnov voters are far right, and thats even assuming he didnt cheat in any way. America is not 50% far right.
I don’t think the US is anywhere near 50% far right, despite electing Trump They were sick of the existing establishment and threw it out. That is, they voted on rebel vs establishment lines, without much regard to left vs right, if that makes sense.
The US elections(at very least the Presidential elections)are entirely rigged/ predetermined by corporate wall street influence. Corporations have been manipulating everything to their benefit for the last 6 decades. Every aspect of our political policy is already obviously corrupted by money its naive to believe this one thing isn’t because democracy is some sacred aspect of American exceptionalism. Both parties are fascist there is no left political party in the usa the democratic party by the standards of the rest of the developed world Is a right wing party. To varying degrees both parties blatantly exhibit 13 of the 14 traits of fascism. The only one trait that they can claim plausible deniability in regards to is fraudulent elections but if we are 13/14ths the way there it is highly unlikely the last trait hasn’t already come to pass. In germany their highest constitutional court ruled that electronic voting is unconstitutional because it is impossible to differentiate between fraudulent results and legitimate ones for laypeople / anyone who isnt a cybersecurity expert or IT professional.
So really the idea that americans voted for this when its obvious the majority is very displeased about the state of our society and has been for years while conservatives tell us that social Media sites are left wing biased echo chambers but have to heavily moderate their conservative echo chambers to present the image that conservatism is popular in anyway its all just a ridiculous farce.
Plus there is the Princeton study done in the last 2 decades or so that determined the amount of influence anyone has on political policy making is directly tied to the amount of wealth you have with regular working people having a statistically meaningless near zero effect on policy writing regardless of how popular or unpopular that policy may be
Counterpoint: US doesn’t have free education but far right pop up like a mushroom anyway.
I’m calling dibs on the band name “The Dangerously Educated Proletariat”!
How dare our slaves be educated and want a revolt over us.
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I beg to differ mate, if I’m paying by providing you with my E-Mail address which you’re going to use for god only knows what. No thanks.
You don’t pay with money, you pay with your data being tracked and harvested, and sold to the highest bidder of $1.43.
Man if they were worth that much, I would create thousands of them😂
Fair. One of my many issues when Yang was running for the nomination back in 2020 was that he wanted the money from data being sold given back to the person it was taken from. Seemed reasonable.
But then people pointed out that the data is worth next to nothing, it’s only worth something with millions grouped and bunched together. You and I alone are worth pennies, and that’s on a good day. It costs almost nothing to gather the info and scrape and sell it, the hardest part is storing it for companies like Google and Facebook, as that can be a lot of storage.
So the idea that you’d get paid back for your data being sold is great, until you realize you as Data Number 495715953 were sold for $0.09 and got it as a check, it would cost more time and money to process that check than it’s worth.
Just put in a bullshit address that goes nowhere. They don’t verify it.
High student debt and employer healthcare is a “very useful motivator” to obey “Fuck you and do what I tell you” orders.
Whenever the ‘smother Hitler as a baby’ topic comes up, my first instinct is generally, ‘can we do Reagan too’?
The problem wasn’t really Reagan, though, it was all the wormtongues whispering in his ear. If it wasn’t Reagan, they’d have found some other useful idiot.
No, the problem was very much Reagan.
Look at the incredibly shitty job Bush I did, by contrast, with many of the same assholes chirping in his ar. We’d be in a much better position if he’d never been president.
Reagan spent at least half of his administration suffering from alzhiemers. He was most definitely a puppet, though a charismatic one.
Also Putin, right?
And Trump and Gingrich.
How many more reasons do I need to add to my list of reasons to hate Reagan? List has grown by 2 reasons today.
A society which charges its students to acquire knowledge values neither.
A healthy and broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.
Education leads to empowerment and the ability to see through the right’s tricks and false info to get votes. It’s obvious why Reagan and now Dump want less education.
