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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Our nation is undergoing an enormous crisis in compassion and in unity; the "us" versus "them" elements in this discussion disturb me. I spend my life working with immigrants who have built businesses and added to our country, and if they're "them", count me as a "them", too, please.
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This is what happens when the spoils of the economy are distributed in an extremely lopsided fashion. We're experiencing people feeling unfairness, and the effects of a very cold and merciless new industrial revolution of sorts, but these people have no power. These people are labor, or middle management (the $75k Trump voter). They don't have capital, and if you don't have capital in the new economy, you don't count. So they're doing what the losers in every economic upheaval do: Attacking those they have the power to attack.
It's dumb, it's counterproductive, and it saps us of the diversity that makes this country so innovative. But I see no cure for it. Our debt-addicted rentier economy has created an angry middle class/underclass that is maleducated, or just plain dumb, has no constructive ideas, and simply seeks to lash out.
Debt forgiveness would fix a lot of this. And it's coming.
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