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1980s were very different, and since then companies started (and never did stop) to behave like assholes towards employees, environment and regulation.
Thanks Reagan!
That a..hole really marked a turning point, and Thatcher and Kohl transferred the evil to Europe.
We could have had a kind and healthy world and got a hellscape of hatred and greed instead.
Welllll…capitalism was always on a less than virtuous path. The robber barons, the long history of violent attacks on strikers…capitalism was never going to let us be happy. We pie had to fight for everything we’ve won.
Most figures such as Ayn Rand and Reagan were nothing but repackaged versions of Friedrich Hayek.
We got very close to having a very different future, then Bush stole the presidency from Gore.
If they failed to steal that one, they were going to steal the next one. 2000 wasn't some kind of fluke. It was an organized, targeted effort to change tje political landscape, and it had been in progrwss for many years at that point. They weren't going to stop if they fell a little short.
It sorta was. It was being done locally but it was after they realized what happened there that they made it a national strategy.