• Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    24 days ago

    American economist John Galbraith has an excellent book on this, where he mostly blames “us”, the vast middle class. While his analysis is based on the US, it is eerily similar to Australia.

    The Culture of Contentment

    https://bookwyrm.social/book/1805003/s/the-culture-of-contentment

    that aside i’d not used the word fair at all,. they literally argue what they pay is more than fair. I’d argue you can’t have a stable democracy if there is significant inequality, so it’s fundamental to the preservation of our society.

    That aside, we’re getting even. more stupidity, see the rise of the ONP. This will only get worse, more and more Trumpian levels of stupidity is on its way.

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      24 days ago

      Yeah, seeing the rise of white nationalism in Australia is an unpleasant sight. I’ve lost friends to that ideology. The ones you’d never think would go down that path.