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It's really sad to see how well the right is brainwashing a new generation of adolescents.
It's a classic tactic to illustrate how people with less can survive. Living and being alive aren't synonymous. Living paycheck to paycheck is capitalist extortion: work or die. So claiming you're 20% above someone literally being threatened isn't the freedom you think it is.
A union doesn't "magically" earn you more money. They are most effective at advocating for the lowest earners against the most egregiously overpaid upper management: the extortioners who take home hundreds if not thousands of times the wages of the people they extort.
If the money simply wasn't available, so be it. Enduring a famine from bad weather is one thing, enduring a famine because the regency holds 98% of your crop in a vault is another.
I don't know the exact meaning of you 10 week runway statement, but I bet it's some alphamale bullshit about needing only 10 weeks to successfully launch your highly successful business. The majority of startup businesses fail, and do you know who is responsible for a lot of it? Big corpos throwing their dicks around. Dropping prices in your local area until you bleed dry, then surging the price again to absorb the loss. Opening a mega-store to eat up market share until you can't pay rent, then closing down and moving out of city limits to avoid municipal taxes. Hell, just owning the company that owns the company that owns the company that owns the damn building you rent and driving to costs up to drive you out.
And lastly — and I am now realizing you may be a foreign nationalist with only a romanticized idea of America — no one is ordering credit cards online randomly. Like, its not even a thing you really can do. You might as well be accusing people of buying too many MacDonalds and Coca-Colas.
Your both overthinking this. It's the avocado toast, always has been. Just stop eating that and suddenly you'll be a millionaire
It's generally not brainwashing. Ideas come from Material Conditions, the ideas that are popular in society come from the world around you, not through the Marketplace of Ideas or anything.
Fascism and Socialism/Communism are on the rise in Western Nations because Imperialism, ie Capitalism at its highest stage, is crumbling. Without being a class reductionist, you generally see fascism arising as a link between the petite and the full bourgeoisie against the Proletariat along nationalist lines, as a way to "turn the clock back" to a less decayed point in time.
Two things can be true, kumquat