If you think the US is a Democracy, and not just a complicated form of slavery that benefits the few, you really aren't paying attention.

[mahadevank@mastodon.social]

@anolandria goodness, that's 60% poverty then?! Wild!

[dougiec3@libretooth.gr]

@anolandria
I found a different headline on the site:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@dougiec3 @anolandria

I wonder how much longer that article will remain online.. thank God for the Internet Archive. There’s a columnist on the financial times who remarked that the UK was a few islands of wealth amidst an ocean of poverty.

Both the United States and the UK were the first targets/victims of neoliberalism, a conman’s ask that people surrender their sovereignty to the totalitarian rule of wealth.

That’s what privatization is. The rank and file have no say.

[sayonaraminasan@urusai.social]

@anolandria yep! Wage slavery is still slavery.

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@mahadevank @anolandria Yeah, but most don't realize it. They're drowning in massive debt, maxing out credit cards, but still vote Republican because it's all the neighbor's fault for existing while brown, not, you know, the ones actually doing this to us.

Even the people voting Democrat still are fooling themselves and voting in candidates that are no different from a Republican used to be.

[ronanmcd@mastodon.green]

@anolandria I agree with you, and the following is probably obvious; that inequality is the source of so much domestic trouble in USA and issues they export to the rest of the world. So many trapped in poverty and their only way out is greed, take everything for yourself and screw everyone else.

A more equal society would be happier and safer. But that means paying taxes and obeying rules, something the rich refuse to do and the poor struggle to

[victimofsimony@infosec.exchange]

@anolandria

That's called neural linguistic programming. They're wording it that way in the hopes that you'll be afraid of being "at the bottom" and will deny your poverty as a result.

Hey, Russian bots! Pay attention! The American media does this trick a lot. You wanna rattle your saber, learn this trick. Hen you can rattle it to my benefit for a change.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@anolandria

I'll grudgingly admit that from a slavers' perspective, a self-organising population of wage and debt slaves is an impressive evolution on the old model.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@anolandria “democratic slavery” \s

[darkmemer@mastodon.social]

@anolandria That’s a strong claim, but it oversimplifies a complex system. The U.S. is a democracy with real flaws—economic inequality, influence of capital—but calling it ‘slavery’ ignores both historical context and the mechanisms people still use to push for change

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dougiec3 @anolandria Saved as a pdf. It isn't going anywhere.

[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@anolandria Wouldn't that be a "super majority"?