Anecdotally, I've seen scammy fortune teller signs in poor places, and the poorer, the greater the chance I see one. It's a tragic symbiosis -- no way to make money to live or leave turns people to prey on others' desperate hopes and ignorance, and that same need for hope draws in the ignorant. Maybe it's the same reason people play the lottery when they know the odds of winning are ridiculously low... People are paying for hope and a temporary fantasy.
STOP BLAMING GENERATIONS. This is a clear division tactic. Of course Fortune wants to push this narrative. They're the Rupert saying "that foreigner wants your cookie."
They want to test out all the toys that Raytheon et all developed and built for the military using tax money, which were then sold to bloated police departments paid for by tax money, to blind and disable protesters who paid for health care out of pocket when they didn't meet their deductibles because they had to get the cheapest plan available because they had no money left after paying taxes to fund the genocide machine. Circle of life. Or something.
Serious question: So aside from public transportation (which isn't available in many places), how can we procure a car (electric) without a dealer, given the laws in place to protect them? Many people are not keen to buy a Tesla, and I don't know what other cars are available without dealerships. Or does it just vary in the U.S., state to state? Playing this game, in this rigged system... I just can't stop thinking of Ursula LeGuin's quote about capitalism seeming inevitable, but so did the divine right of kings. Every. Day.
As soon as the world looks to a non-dollar reserve currency, the last seal will be broken. China is being rather patient, letting the US eat itself from within.
I may be spitballing here, but it seems that neoliberals can't imagine an anti-left campaign could be run by anything but a conservative (read: republican) entity. That neoliberalism is actually conservative doesn't cross their minds (why would it? the mere existence of leftism is coopted or erased in American media). That the NYT would be part of that apparatus hasn't crossed enough people's minds, until now. Their façade is cracking.
Anecdotally, I've seen scammy fortune teller signs in poor places, and the poorer, the greater the chance I see one. It's a tragic symbiosis -- no way to make money to live or leave turns people to prey on others' desperate hopes and ignorance, and that same need for hope draws in the ignorant. Maybe it's the same reason people play the lottery when they know the odds of winning are ridiculously low... People are paying for hope and a temporary fantasy.