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History is written by the winners… Every history class we get is written through the lens of “capitalism is the only option”
The great depression is exactly where to look… Let me put together some facts you probably know in a new way
What was the new deal? It was wealth redistribution. Job creation en masse through government programs (to do basically busywork at times), sociatal safety nets, worker protections… Sound familiar?
How did it play out? The establishment fought it every step of the way. America voted in younger and bolder representatives to both parties.
FDR won the election 4 times - until very recently he was said to be “the closest America has come to a king”. But he wasn’t… He was performing the will of the people, and that threatened the establishment. It took 2 generations to slowly dismantle what he put in place
And on the other note… Billionaires can’t build a utopia. They can’t build a company, let alone a city state. They’re genuinely dumber than normal people - they don’t ever build things. They invest in others, the ideas never come from them. They are the manifestations of the financial empire that is a billionaire, they too are prisoners of their own wealth
I’m not sure if you’re American but I’m English, we were educated on the great depression in the US but also, for example on our industrial revolution and how mass protest and strikes (mostly focused on the UK) have improved laws, working conditions and so on, how the suffragettes fought for women’s rights etc. We weren’t taught that capitalism is the only option - though we weren’t given too much on communism I don’t think we have the same mass hysteria about communism or socialism as seems usual in the US.
I think that billionaires could build these places… They have the money. Towns maybe. In the UK businesses already built towns, eg Saltaire. Cults build towns, don’t they? They could entice, bribe, threaten enough people to live there, but it wouldn’t work in the end. They do build or at least grow company towns - look at Microsoft or the big tech firms in silicon valley. A country/state can’t be run like a company in the long run so its doomed to failure, but they could absolutely do it or pay others to do it and make it look good for a while.
History is written by the winners… Every history class we get is written through the lens of “capitalism is the only option”
The great depression is exactly where to look… Let me put together some facts you probably know in a new way
What was the new deal? It was wealth redistribution. Job creation en masse through government programs (to do basically busywork at times), sociatal safety nets, worker protections… Sound familiar?
How did it play out? The establishment fought it every step of the way. America voted in younger and bolder representatives to both parties.
FDR won the election 4 times - until very recently he was said to be “the closest America has come to a king”. But he wasn’t… He was performing the will of the people, and that threatened the establishment. It took 2 generations to slowly dismantle what he put in place
And on the other note… Billionaires can’t build a utopia. They can’t build a company, let alone a city state. They’re genuinely dumber than normal people - they don’t ever build things. They invest in others, the ideas never come from them. They are the manifestations of the financial empire that is a billionaire, they too are prisoners of their own wealth
I’m not sure if you’re American but I’m English, we were educated on the great depression in the US but also, for example on our industrial revolution and how mass protest and strikes (mostly focused on the UK) have improved laws, working conditions and so on, how the suffragettes fought for women’s rights etc. We weren’t taught that capitalism is the only option - though we weren’t given too much on communism I don’t think we have the same mass hysteria about communism or socialism as seems usual in the US.
I think that billionaires could build these places… They have the money. Towns maybe. In the UK businesses already built towns, eg Saltaire. Cults build towns, don’t they? They could entice, bribe, threaten enough people to live there, but it wouldn’t work in the end. They do build or at least grow company towns - look at Microsoft or the big tech firms in silicon valley. A country/state can’t be run like a company in the long run so its doomed to failure, but they could absolutely do it or pay others to do it and make it look good for a while.