• Old_Dude
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      I think it was good to get our country to it’s most prosperous point, but there are obviously some huge flaws now causing a smaller middle class. It seems that a form of evolution is needed, and we are at a point where some change is needed, but capitalism was great at creating a large middle class before digressing from that.

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          The levels of privilege and selfishness it takes to see the “benefit” for the American “middle class” (not a thing), while so willingly ignoring the cost that that came with to everyone else on the planet is both staggering and quite nauseating.

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      Yeah I agree. I think the laws of supply and demand, when heavily regulated by a government that actually gives a shit about its people, is way more effective than any other way of running an economy.