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>Decent hypothesis, but fails when we compare America to other capitalist countries. (Or non-capitalist countries, extant and historically, with extreme wealth
by CursedSilicon 1y ago
>Decent hypothesis, but fails when we compare America to other capitalist countries. (Or non-capitalist countries, extant and historically, with extreme wealth inequality.)
What countries other than the US have the sheer extreme wealth inequality the US does?
Really the only other comparison is China. Which went from an existing authoritarian state to an authoritarian state using its working class as effective slave labor for western capital. It's "state capitalism"
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> What countries other than the US have the sheer extreme wealth inequality the US does? All of South America, Southern Africa and Southeast Asia [1]. Also every single pre-industrial society. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_inequality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_...
- SauciestGNU 1y agoLook at historical conditions in apartheid South Africa or pre-revolution France.