• Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Of course. American prosperity fell off a cliff around 1980, so the last 40 years or so have just been inertia and grinding the middle class into dust.

      Which is roughly where we are now.

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        1 year ago

        Not true! The 90s were great! We signed NAFTA and shipped all our manufacturing jobs overseas!

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          I don’t get you people. Presumably you’re also complaining about Trump tariffs?

          You complain when the US signs free-trade agreements, and then you complain when the US closes its borders.

          Make it make sense?

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            1 year ago

            It’s all a symptoms of a system that exploits it’s workers, see my original comment.