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Americans are slowly realizing they're living in a plutocracy (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/usa@lemmy.ml
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[–] 20 points 9 months ago (6 children)

do most americans believe that their ruling class ever gave a shit about them ?

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Seems like a lot of Americans genuinely believe they live in a democracy.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Worse, it's the Temporarily embarrassed billionaire -Most Americans think they are or will one day be apart of the top 10% of the top 1%. They don't get that upward socioeconomic mobility has stalled out in the past twenty years.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Seriously, I think they have a huge sense of entitlement but can't understand they've done nothing to earn it. Culturally they get bombarded with USA USA USA is number one. They high five themselves and then stop looking at the world, news. They font notice Asia working hard to improve their economies, quality life, education, inventing tech or mastering existing tech. Their parents had a good life so they should too. Not realizing the boomers prospered because the rest of the world had been bombed to shit in WW2, while the US economy never lost a building. Well Europe rebuilt, communism died, China settled their internal issues (mostly) and they all are building new things. While american investors look for more return on their investments. That USA USA chant was the wool being pulled over their eyes

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