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Those greedy gen-zs hoarding their wealth.
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It's almost like capitalism functions better when workers are payed enough to buy things! I mean fuck Henry Ford was a frothing-at-the-mouth raving prejudiced lunatic, but he had enough practical sense to at least recognize that. This "lost" $12 billion isn't gone, it's just sitting in hedgefunds generating more digits, which they've decided is somehow more real than facilitating the next generation to buy into the hegemonic status quo.
Fuck. Damn. I mean, perhaps the most low-key aggravating stuff about communist theory is understanding enough about how capitalism works that you get aggravated when the ding dang old capitalists themselves can't even do it right.
Capitalism concentrating money in the hands of the few is working as intended. It is intrinsicly not sustainable.
This kind of bithching at poor people is just authors sucking up to their masters.
Yeah, the purpose of a system is what it does, not what its "supposed" to do.
It's just interesting how what the capitalists intend can change so drastically over a single human lifetime. The Great Depression disabused a lot of people (working class and owning class) of any notion that capitalist markets can self-correct all on their own. Lead to a bunch of ideas and policies that prioritized outcome above simplified, idealized pictures of how markets were "supposed" to work. You get the New Deal and Great Society projects that do improve conditions for (some) working people and (more importantly to those in power) make the system more robust, more shock resistant.
...and subsequently, the first World War, the Great Depression, and the second World War recede from living memory. Lived experience gets replaced with idealized simplifications and the ruling class starts ripping out all the counter-weights and safety nets that ultimately, ironically, were put there for their own long term benefit. It's a fantastic joke. And somewhat troubling to be living in.