VeeThis has been like this or a while now... it's now a chasm.
felis_catus_domesticus@VeroniqueB99 yeah I am baffled that it's been allowed to go on for this long. WTF is wrong with people? They really are stupid.
@felis_catus_domesticus Idk... between the 3 job crowd that's exhausted 24/7 and the crowd convinced that 'things are gonna get better' no one noticed the middle class was disappearing...🤷♀️
@VeroniqueB99 the gilded age of US history saw a huge influx of southern and eastern Europeans who were poor, uneducated, accustomed to hard lives and exploitation back in the countries and societies they came from, and were willing to work hard and do anything for any (of course exploitatively low) pay. And a few well positioned native sons were able to exploit them to make fortunes for themselves. Carnegie? Bezos. Southern Italian, Russian Jew? Latin Americans.. the labels have changed but the playbook is the same.