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minus-square@NocturnalMorninglink9•1 month agoProbably this, but it had been bubbling under the surface for a while.
minus-squarePrehensile_cloaca linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoOf 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.
minus-square@NocturnalMorninglink3•1 month agoNot true! The 90s were great! We signed NAFTA and shipped all our manufacturing jobs overseas!
minus-squarePrehensile_cloaca linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month ago*Cue Josh Lyman parading through West Wing gloating about globalization
minus-square@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink1•30 days agoI 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?
minus-square@NocturnalMorninglink1•30 days agoIt’s all a symptoms of a system that exploits it’s workers, see my original comment.
Probably this, but it had been bubbling under the surface for a while.
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.
Not true! The 90s were great! We signed NAFTA and shipped all our manufacturing jobs overseas!
*Cue Josh Lyman parading through West Wing gloating about globalization
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?
It’s all a symptoms of a system that exploits it’s workers, see my original comment.