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The supply and demand should at least be in favor of blue collar. But there might be a lot of political repression and union busting. Still, there will for sure be some shift in economic power, that will favor unions and the value of labor in general. Exciting times ahead. Similarities with 1920s are overwhelming.
I mean I guess exciting is one way to put it if you find the great depressing exciting. Even if it did lead to FDR and a number of progressive policies it still took around a decade of horrible unemployment and poverty to get to that point.
Yep. Things will only get shittier in the US for as long as they/you don't reverse the inequality trend. It's impossible to have a functional democracy with the current gini coefficient. And it's rapidly getting worse.
At some point, from an evolutionary perspective, it's probably rational to crave chaos, system collapse or revolution, if you're at the perceived socioeconomic bottom. Trump 2.0 might have been that point. Democrats didn't present a credible solution, rather they just demonstrated that they don't understand much. Just more neoliberal globalist crap, sprinkled with a touch of welfare and identity politics. Then it might be better to just opt for high risk and chaos, and hope you get lucky.
(I know there are good democrats as well, but they're not in charge.)
Yeah I totally agree, I'm just still holding out hope there's some way to get real reforms that help people cause that would be the best case scenario. But yeah it is starting to seem that chaos and system collapse might be the only way to get real change. I just worry we're at a point where if the system collapses we'll end up with Nazi Germany rather than New Deal America.
It's a gamble for sure.