• azimir@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Our family was priced out of fast food in the US about two years ago. It’s both too expensive and much worse than it was in the past. We got generally priced out of family dining before that, so this was just the natural progression.

    I work harder than ever and we just keep sliding down the economic scale. We lost the class war.

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        10 months ago

        One of the rule of war is that it’s a “Two No, One Yes” situation. To avoid one, both sides have to say no. Either side can say yes and then you’re in a war whether you want it or not.

        The rich said yes, the middeclass/below said no and we lost by default.

        My whole life (now too many decades) the media propaganda has been saying how great deregulation, no taxes, and business-style government leadership is. Too many people believed those lies by the rich. So, here we are: in a new Guilded Age and making peanuts for our labor while our children’s future is quite dim.

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      10 months ago

      We lost the class war because a third of the country sided with, checks notes, wallstreet. Wtf yall?