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- Embed this noticeMost people don't realize just how fucked up the world economy is right now. Capitalism is long over. You don't have capitalism when 50% of GDP is the state in most countries, or when blue collar workers pay 50% taxes on the last dollar they earn. By contrast, my great grandparents paid no income taxes and the government was about 10% of the economy.
"But look at all the super-rich people!" Yeah, that happens every time the state becomes massive because the powerful people in government make sure their friends and allies are taken care of. It has gone on for millennia in every region of the world because power corrupts.
We're living in a totalitarian civilization because at some point we decided that "everything is political" and thus under the purview of the government. Of course there's corruption and greed. We used to have culture, and community, and even religion. We gave it all away.
And the worst part is that people can't even recognize something as simple as a guy who got rich on subsidies and fed money printing cranking up his stonks isn't a libertarian.