“Yup. And Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and the rest of these corporations are making out like bandits,”
They crawled into bed and got cozy with the ruling elites. They’re part of the donor class.
Corporations have been doing this for decades! The ruling elites response is throw in more costly regulations that the little guy can’t afford but the donor class can. Screw the little guy.
Spent a few weeks in a formerly communist country when I was a grad student in the early 80’s. There was no middle class!! Just the ruling elites, their money supply, and the peons.
I was so shocked that a relative of mine that was V.P. of a bank, a wife who was a school teacher had less then I did as a student paying her own way.
“Caring” socialism (i.e. manipulating socialist) is just a façade for totalitarianism.
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The grocery store scene chronicles what a former Soviet slave encounters when he sees a western supermarket for the first time.
Years before this movie was made, a relative of mine was allowed to have a friend of our family was reunited with a relative who escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. The first time they took her to a grocery store, she thought they had played an elaborate ruse on her. She claimed that US government had taken all of the food from the entire state and put it in one place to try to make her think there was this amount of food available in America.