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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, let's just ignore how wages have stagnated, costs of living have increased exponentially, and wealth is being continually hoarded by a small group of people, all while the planet cooks to death.
The working class is quite obviously worse off in most of the developed world with no sign of improvement in sight. Why would they continue to trust the people who keep making policy decisions that make their lives and the lives of their children worse?
And I say that as someone who is anti-Brexit and anti-Trump, but the rise of populism shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has a passing knowledge or world history and is aware of the socioeconomic and ecological conditions that are occurring across the world.
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I give you climate change, but in every other respect every one in society lives like kings compared to our grandparents, food is abundent, we all have technology that is the stuff of science fiction, never in history has the life of the poor been as similer as the life of the rich.
The poor used to starve to death, now their poverty is symbolised by their morbid obesity, the term 'on the ropes' is a reference to a cheap form of accomadation from 150 years ago when people slept standing upright held in place by a rope, to be white and living in the UK or US is quite literally the best life any human in history has ever had, yes wages have stagnated but consumer goods are so cheap we throw out televisions and cell phones that 30 years ago cost a month or 2's wages, everyone does, not just the rich.