• Joe Cool@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, free, happy and educated people don’t suddenly wake up as fascists one day.

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      6 months ago

      Note that conditions haven’t been getting worse in America, but there’s a campaign by the populists to make people feel like it’s worse.

      The economy is better than before the pandemic, the wages have finally started beating inflation (to the point people are making more now in wages than before the pandemic). But if you’re on social media you would not think this is the case.

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          Except the uptick is from 1990, it’s been getting better for about 34 years now, with setbacks in the dotcom crash, financial crisis and the pandemic.

          There haven’t been better wages at any point in US history as we beat the uptick of the 1970s some time ago