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Cake day: August 20th, 2024

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  • Crime. Corruption. Spending a few hundred million on tax lawyers.

    We need to raise corporate taxes back to 90%. Before yall get your nuts all twisted. They could write off most of that back in the day by raising wages and reinvesting into the company to grow it.

    THAT is what built the industrial juggernaut that won the Cold War. That was the main cause. It’s what made the US economy so indomitable.

    Nowadays they pay a pittance and reinvest nothing. They stagnate wage growth. And that’s why we’ve been stuck in this boom bust cycle for decades.







  • It always does. The lords get too greedy, and the peasants revolt.

    The US has done an exceptionally good job of propaganizing that instinct out of people. But the material conditions of American Life have brought the sentiment roaring back.

    Basically there are 2 paths. Either way is going to be a revolutionary upturning of the status quo. Either there will be another FDR who reins in the worst impulses of Capital. Or the citizenry will do it for them.

    That or GovCo goes full authoritarian to control the population. But that has the potential to spark a civil war. After all, we have more guns than people to use them. A few massacres around the country would spark a real resistance.