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It is so disgusting to me that we allowed our oligarch class to de-industrialize our country and ship all of the jobs and everything we built overseas. 100 yea
by honkycat 5y ago
It is so disgusting to me that we allowed our oligarch class to de-industrialize our country and ship all of the jobs and everything we built overseas.
100 years of industrialization and worker movements gutted, abandoned, and disassembled with the help of our two-faced neo-liberal[0] government.
And for what? 40 years of profit for the 1%? And then encountering the fact that we have outsourced ourselves into a profound strategic weakness in the international markets.
0: As in: Both sides, globalization. Not as in Dem vs Republican.
- xadhominemx 5y agoNeon purification and leading edge chip manufacturing concentrating in Ukraine and Taiwan respectively have nothing to do with neoliberalism. The former is a historical accident rooted in soviet space laser initiatives, and the latter is because TSMC executed technology development better than western, Japanese, and Korean competitors