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[–] AllonzeeLV 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is the American enshittification we the US have been exporting since the Reagan giveaway to turn actual societies into piggy banks for the global rigged market capitalist owner class in their insatiable need for growth/metastasis, just as the US is. They only need a few people in the right positions to accept the faustian bargain of "You can live large, in decadence you'd never believe!... All you have to do is betray your countrymen and let us exploit them without mercy."

It works, sadly. There's always a few ambitious wormtongues in the right places willing to stab their neighbors in the back to get into the little sociopath club. The UK has long since fallen to this bargain, the French are fighting, but losing.

I fear for the last shining beacon of civilization when the market capitalist oligarchs succeed in destroying the Nordic societies with our unrestrained greed disease, then they can declare "there's no better way" without a prominent example to the contrary.