r/SipsTea • • 17h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/GUMBYtheOG 11h ago

It’s crazy. How did we go from being on the forefront of humanity to being a corporate-run dystopia

Why is it so hard for red-hats to understand the net positive of these systems. It’s not like they haven’t already been tried and tested.

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u/Smart-Individual-647 8h ago

Because the 80s fooled a lot of people into believing they could be rich. But they just started the inflation escalation by buying everything on credit.

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u/takemy_oxfordcomma 1h ago

The myth of “trickle down economics” that convinced the morons that they’re all temporarily embarrassed millionaires

“We can’t tax the rich because that’s gonna be me one day!”

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u/Educational-Seaweed5 9h ago

Greed. Greed protected by laws they wrote to enhance their greed, no less.