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Middle class culture, any culture, can only stand if it is rewarded. In prior times middle class culture was fundamentally supported by the upper classes, who i

Middle class culture, any culture, can only stand if it is rewarded. In prior times middle class culture was fundamentally supported by the upper classes, who invested in America, creating vast wealth. They modeled sobriety, hard-work, risk and reward. The working classes modeled the behavior through church and labor guilds, standing together for each other and the nation. The wealthy have abandoned America, and the working classes have abandoned religion, guilds, and each other. Into that void steps cultural anarchy. Society requires hard-work, and discipline. It requires accountability, primarily of the wealthy. I tire of prose that lament the loss of culture without holding those accountable who have abandoned their responsibilities

bigbadfeline 1y ago
> Society requires... [snip] ... accountability, primarily of the wealthy. Ask them how much they love accountability and see what they are gonna tell you. > I tire of prose that lament the loss of culture without holding those accountable who have abandoned their responsibilities Culture is quite easy to be manipulated by... see above. Nowadays it's even easier with GPU farms, bot farms, LLMs and what not. Hanging your hopes on "culture" leads to 1984. Maybe you think tariffs are the cure... a bit long to explain but in short, they're the opposite of cure. And wolfstreet is a BS generator.