waiting for summer The Dialectical Communist 🇵🇸🇾🇪<p>Captain Capitalism</p><p><a href="https://tankie.tube/w/3mw9T9wNNV2xUSaqRn7ReE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tankie.tube/w/3mw9T9wNNV2xUSaq</span><span class="invisible">Rn7ReE</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/cartoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartoons</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marx</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/karlmax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>karlmax</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/freehealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freehealthcare</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/worldpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldpeace</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/endworldhunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endworldhunger</span></a></p>
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Odin Halvorson<p>Understanding the aesthetics of oligarchy can help us to see where their power comes from and maybe even do something about it....</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Vh5PqBNit_c?si=BPXEwLd2UANgUUuy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Vh5PqBNit_c?si=BPXEwL</span><span class="invisible">d2UANgUUuy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Socialism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ideas</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ideals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ideals</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hope</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Power</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PeopleFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleFirst</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Aesthetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aesthetics</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ideas</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bernie</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BernieSanders</span></a></p>
Lord_Popoyipopo<p>People be like "under communism you'll own nothing and you'll like it" then capitalism is like "Your games are a service, we are phasing out physical media, your apps are subscription based, we'll remove your digital media whenever we want, and good luck ever owning a home lol." <a href="https://mast.lat/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.lat/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a></p>
A Sweet Gentleman<p>We're talking about the company controlled by a guy who sent money to Trump, changed the Washington Post into Republican propaganda.</p><p>You sure you want him to record what you say in private?</p><p>"Starting on March 28, recordings of everything spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bezos</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amazon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alexa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alexa</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republican</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a></p>
Linux Is Best<p><span>Your lack of becoming a millionaire, billionaire, or future, trillionaire is not a reflection of yourself being lazy, or lacking any ambition.<br><br>You have not failed in life, nor have you wasted your life, simply because you are similar to the average person, who will never wake up wealthy through hard work and determination.<br><br></span><a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Capitalism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Economics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economics</a></p>
Ricós<p>Hold your horses, The Expanse, I know you're a science fiction show, your purpose is to explore different, sometimes wildly strange possibilities, but even within your genre, this is too unrealistic:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IWishThingsWereLikeThatNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWishThingsWereLikeThatNow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ImLovingThisShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImLovingThisShow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TheExpanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheExpanse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a></p>
Nando161<p>The <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> has become <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a></p><p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tesla</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/antitesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antitesla</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/fucktesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fucktesla</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/antidonaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antidonaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/antielonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antielonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/boycottelonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boycottelonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epstein</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/ghislainemaxwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ghislainemaxwell</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/billclinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billclinton</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/bigots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigots</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/hypocrites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrites</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memes</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/neonazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neonazis</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/ausgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ausgov</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/politas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politas</span></a></p>
Yogthos<p><strong>Capitalism didn't replace slavery and feudalism. It learned from them.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://peertube.mesnumeriques.fr/videos/watch/d30a6cf5-1dd4-4c67-94b7-89769d6527ae" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peertube.mesnumeriques.fr/vide</span><span class="invisible">os/watch/d30a6cf5-1dd4-4c67-94b7-89769d6527ae</span></a></p>
Yogthos<p>Capitalism is directly at odds with a habitable biosphere because it's an economic system predicated on ever-expanding growth and finite resources.</p><p>The transition to green energy will be difficult and costly, and significant sacrifices, such as reducing consumption and shrinking industries, will be necessary. Such changes are simply not possible in a system based around consumerism.</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-end-of-capitalism-or-the-end-of-civilisation-the-choice-could-be-that-stark-250922" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/the-end-of</span><span class="invisible">-capitalism-or-the-end-of-civilisation-the-choice-could-be-that-stark-250922</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a></p>
Yogthos<p>this is the kind of content people need to make more of</p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a></p>
Yogthos<p>The UK is entered 2024 with unacceptably high levels of poverty, appallingly high for some groups. We need a coherent plan with creative policies to end poverty in the UK. </p><p><a href="https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2024-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2024-the</span><span class="invisible">-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>Happy Pi Day, fediverse!</p><p>And since it's also Albert Einstein's birthday, here's a quote from his 1949 article "Why Socialism?":</p><p>"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil."</p><p>He sure was a smart guy. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Socialism%3F" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Soci</span><span class="invisible">alism%3F</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PiDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PiDay</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/Einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Einstein</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/AlbertEinstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlbertEinstein</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>"In a modern capitalist society, technology was, is, and always will be an expression of the economic objectives that direct it....A worthwhile exercise would be to delete 'technology' from our vocabularies...to see how quickly capitalism's objectives are exposed." —Shoshana Zuboff</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ShoshanaZuboff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShoshanaZuboff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a></p>
Stan Carey<p>"Privacy policies are more aptly referred to as *surveillance policies*, and that is what I suggest we call them." </p><p>—Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ShoshanaZuboff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShoshanaZuboff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a></p>
The Dialectical Communist 🇵🇸🇾🇪<p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/RaSAI9puE_Y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/RaSAI9puE_Y</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Why do a handful of rich men get to control how the world communicates?</p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/markzuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>markzuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monopolies</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/psl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psl</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/PartyforSocialismandLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartyforSocialismandLiberation</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Just as Russians used American capitalism to consolidate their own power, Americans cooperated with the Russian oligarchy with the same purpose—in the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, for example.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Inequality of income and wealth grew drastically from the 1980s through the 2010s.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Whereas workers paid an increasing tax burden through payroll taxes, corporations and wealthy families saw theirs drop by half or more. Even as the percentage of income and wealth at the top of the American distribution increased, the percentage of tax expected from the most fortunate decreased.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>At the same time, the United States was very weak on the basic policies that stabilized middle classes elsewhere: retirement pensions, public education, public transport, health care, paid vacation, and parental leave.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>In the 1980s, the federal government weakened the position of trade unions. … The productivity of the American workforce grew…at about 2% a year, but the wages of traditional workers increased more slowly, if at all. Over the same period, the pay of executives increased, sometimes drastically.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
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