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It takes such utter lack of imagination to think that nothing fundamentally better than the neoliberal hellscape is possible. I also love how people just keep fishing for bad things that happened in socialist countries and going see communism bad!
The reality is that bad things happen in every human society, the question is whether things are moving in the right direction overall. With socialism quality of life inevitably improves for the majority while with neoliberalism the opposite happens.
Well, people are just brainwashed, I think. It sort of changes, though. Especially among younger populace, people seem to be more aware of the major flaws of capitalism. Not that it doesn't eat it's own tail, of course. We all know and love late-stage capitalism, amirite?
Yeah, I definitely agree that people who grew up in late stages of capitalism recognize how broken the system is much more easily than the older generations. The contradictions are becoming sharper by the day and it's getting harder and harder to pretend that this is a normal and sensible way for humans to live.
@yogthos eh. I'm 55😆
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