Mastodawn

@nixCraft The entire Western world embraced neoliberalism back in the 70s/80s and quite literally completely altered all economic markets and industries. At least here in Murica this includes allowing upper management to be paid almost entirely in stock options driven by short-term results. They also legalized stock buy backs at that time, which had always been illegal due to being blatant market manipulation. We then attacked unions and gutted labor protections over time.

The modern economy would be mostly illegal 40-50 years ago and it is geared entirely toward rewarding society's narcissistic sociopaths who can disregard their fellow humans as nothing more than cogs to be abused.

Hell, the Overton Window has shifted so far to the right that the only solutions anyone comes up with are corporate solutions. Where are the ideas and plans for governments to do things themselves rather than create ideas and (flawed) guardrails for corporations to follow?

Remember the old fear mongering ads saying "This is your brain on drugs"? Well, the true and modern version should be:

This is your brain on capitalism. Or as Rick and Morty put it very astutely: It's just slavery with extra steps.

Edit: And don't forget just how horrible it has been that these psychos have all adopted the Jack Welch management philosophy.