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Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
Ruy Teixeira:
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The way I look at it we are going through a long transition from an industrial capitalist system to a post-industrial services-based capitalist system. So far this transition has not gone well. It hasn’t had the outcomes that people want. We have slow productivity growth and rising inequality. The central point I’d make is that by and large, poor economic times are not good for the left. They make people reactive, pessimistic, trying to hold onto their own, and not supportive of collective endeavors to help the way society functions. And we’ve seen all that in spades in the last decade.
Really that kind of situation is best for the right, and the left has had a very difficult time figuring out a way forward.
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