The Rotting Corpse of Capitalism: What the Fuck Actually Happened?
Well it was a 1-2-3 Punch.....
The Great Robbery We Never Saw
Do you ever feel like you're working harder than your parents did, yet somehow falling further behind? Like the American Dream has been reduced to just staying afloat while the ultra-wealthy float by on their goddamn yachts bought with YOUR productivity?
Well, buckle up, because I'm about to rip off the band-aid and expose the festering wound beneath American capitalism. A wound that started bleeding in 1971 when Richard Nixon severed our currency from gold, oozed pus through Carter's stagflation misery, and became gangrenous during Reagan's "trickle-down" fantasy.
You're not imagining things. You're not lazy. You're not entitled. You're being systematically fucked over by economic policies designed to siphon wealth upward for the past fifty years.
And it all started with what economists blandly call "the Nixon Shock" β thoβ¦
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