• green_link@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    4 days ago

    how is it sustainable? it’s not. and that’s by design. American politicians and billionaires want it this way. they want the divide. the more poor you are the more likely you are to serve them. slavery never disappeared from the US. the ‘American dream’ has been dead for decades.

    • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      4 days ago

      If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. Lyndon B. Johnson

      It works for poor versus rich too. Convince their depressed earnings are due to immigrants, etc. and they’ll attack them and (not us rich folks). It’s a redirection by the rich.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      4 days ago

      It also wasn’t sustainable 20 years ago.

      Millennials in their 40s are finally reaching the level of income/financial freedom as a genX did in their late 20s.

      • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 days ago

        And some of GenX got part of the Boomer economy where they practically handed you a job for simply asking and things were affordable.

    • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 days ago

      the more poor you are the more likely you are to serve them

      I am getting tired of waiting for people to realize what’s in the post and finally take up to pitchforks. That’s not rocket science, come on