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[โ€“] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As another European, I do blame the US' hegemony for a lot of this, but yeah, we're basically all getting fucked.

[โ€“] kaffiene@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I think the root cause is the deregulation/privatisation of everything that started in the 80s. It slanted the playing field towards those with capital at the cost of workers and the cash has been flowing into their pockets and out of ours ever since