• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
      41·
      7 months ago

      Jack Welch, former GE CEO and current free gravestone urinal had a lot to do with changing corporate culture to completely abandon the pretense of societal responsibility as well.

    • AtariDump@lemmy.world
      131·
      7 months ago

      Ronald Reagan! The actor? Then who’s vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady! And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury!

    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1430·
      7 months ago

      Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country’s real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin’ head tellin’ lies on teleprompters.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        7 months ago

        The Bushes have a dynasty of their own. I’m sure they’re fine with selling some favors, but they mostly pushed their own agenda, oil. Oil profits at all costs. That and finishing what daddy started.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
    156·
    7 months ago

    This is a result of the glut of workers caused by the Boomers entering the workforce.

    To make ends meet, the women Boomers went to work too which compounded the problem.

    The times, they are a changing.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      7 months ago

      Right, we have double the work force now thanks to women’s rights. I’m not saying we shouldn’t have women’s rights. Every human should have the same rights. I’m just saying that definitely played a factor in wages.

    • Wanderer
      5·
      7 months ago

      America spent the majority of WW2 selling their entire manufacturing output to every developed country in the world.

      Then they continued on from ww2 being the only country to make a profit and still have the factories working.

      They made a fortune from WW2 and after, it could be argued its the best thing that ever happened to that country.

      It took a while for other countries to catch up.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      This makes sense, and as far as explanations go it’s better than most running around on the internet.

      Yet, it was a very abrupt change. Did the US population have that abrupt change to reflect there? On society it’s common that a very steep change leads to spread-down consequences; the reverse almost never happens.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Some day we’ll find our Mahsa Amini, the last straw. It may be an industrial accident in which workers were locked in place. It may be a dead girl. It may be a law that denies too many people healthcare. It may be a day of mass famine.

    It’ll be the day that enough people have had enough to riot at a scale that overwhelms all responders.

    The more we try other things, the more our peaceful protests and unionization efforts and mutual aid efforts get assaulted and brutalized by law enforcement, the closer we get to realizing that nothing short of razing the plutocrats is going to stop them.

    They will kill us all before they give up their power and cruelty. The question is how many of us have to fall victim to the system before we act.

  • tearsintherain@leminal.space
    3·
    7 months ago

    Reaganomics + neoliberalism + Greenspan libertarianism.

    Unleash freedom for markets, money and corporations, democracy, human rights, ethics and morals be damned! Exorbitant growth in the pocketbooks of the few, big crumbs for those in charge, govts and politicians. Sinema quickly learned this.