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Are you kidding me? Donald Trump's election was a big "fuck you" to the system. They absolutely want to upend the system. The system isn't working for them, and
by cbozeman 6y ago
Are you kidding me? Donald Trump's election was a big "fuck you" to the system. They absolutely want to upend the system. The system isn't working for them, and they know it.
If the system was working, wages wouldn't be stagnant for 50 years. Housing prices wouldn't have nearly quadrupled. College education prices wouldn't have nearly... you know what, I don't even know the correct modifier... gone up by 5000%. In 1971, CEO pay was at best 30-40 times the median salary of an employee at a company. If you made $10,000 a year, the CEO might make $300,000-400,000. The very best CEOs rarely made multi-millions.
This is not a sustainable system.
The problem is, these people don't really have the education to know how to attack the system to correctly dismantle it (in fact, it might not even be possible to dismantle it from a non-violent / institutional standpoint, but that's another conversation), so they instead riot and install Viking Pepe as their leader.
- adamcstephens 6y agoI guess you’re getting downvoted for this one because you’re more explicitly blaming the system instead of the actors. I agree with you that until we fix the rot in the system that leaves so many in despair, unrest will continue to escalate.
- cbozeman 6y agoPeople respond to incentives, incentives are created by systems, and systems aren't put into place by one single person. The "actors" that created many of the problems we suffer under are dead or dying - or quite simply, too rich and powerful to be easily or effectively held accountable. I think I'm being downvoted because most of us that post here on HN are either thoroughly entrenched in the system in some way, or we're elevated beyond these problems which mostly affect poorly educated lower class people. We have tons of FAANG employees that post here, tons of wealthy entrepreneurs, lots of startup founders, etc. None of us really have jack shit in common with poor disenfranchised people. But we better start making it a priority to look into, else I fear we're going to find ourselves in a very unenviable position.
- watwut 6y agoThey voted for Trump, because they have much more radical leftist political preferences then Democratic party?
- doctor_eval 6y agoI'd just like to say that I agree with you, my comment was poorly made. I am no fan of Trump, but I can totally understand why he was elected. I think I meant to say that they had already succeeded in upending the system, and now they were trying to lock it in.