Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Capitalists Only Respond to Threats

From Ian Welsh here. Excerpt:

Let’s look at another of my favorite charts:


Oh hey, having powerful organizations taking the part of workers matters.

Something happened right after Reagan took power:


Then there’s this:



(The numbers have gone down since then, but are still vastly high, and far, far higher than China.

Break the unions and lock up the people who won’t obey bullshit (aka. drug) laws.

Class war is real, and constantly ongoing, and elites have won that war.

Power and fear is all that capitalists ever respond to.


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