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Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

These leaders do so by finding different targets to blame for the inequality. Left-wing, populist backsliders, for example, will blame corporations and economic leaders. Right-wing, ethno-nationalist backsliders might nurture grievances by blaming outsiders or immigrants.

The difference is one of those groups is using facts and logic to correctly identify the problem…

Like, I couldn’t get over the cognitive dissonance of the author that those two were equally bad.

Who the fuck else should we blame beside corporations and economic leaders for economic inequality?

You want me to go yell at the tooth fairy that poor kids get less under their pillow?

Ideally they would have gotten into campaign finance deregulation allowing the wealthy to buy both parties…

“It probably comes as a result, to some degree, of a period of globalization and deregulation, of neoliberalism in the 1990s and even earlier developments that have changed party systems—in a lot of countries—in the post-war period,” she says.

But I guess that’s close enough. It’s like they knew the answer but were too scared to say it

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assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Buddy not everything is about the US. They studied multiple economies. Just because the US is devolving into a corporate hellscape doesn’t mean other countries aren’t devolving into an auth-right government hellscape.

It’s not cognitive dissonance if they’re discussing a situation other than your personal perspective and experience.

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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Neoliberalism hasn’t been a uniquely American epidemic, in large parts to their foreign policy shoving it down 3rd world countries throats.
  
  But regardless of country:
  
  will blame corporations and economic leaders
  
  Who else do you think we should blame for economic inequality?
  
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  - assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Depends on the economy. You, the American, should blame corporatocracy and private interests. Other economies may blame government corruption or government enforced inequality. Aparthied South Africa, for example, may want to blame the government for their inequality.
    
    The paper is just “economic inequality begets democratic backsliding” and is not prescriptive about where that inequality and backsliding comes from.
    
    Again, the world is not the US, and going after these authors for discussing the general case and not staying US-focused is pretty dumb.
    
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    givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So I should listen to the authors…
    
    “It probably comes as a result, to some degree, of a period of globalization and deregulation, of neoliberalism in the 1990s and even earlier developments that have changed party systems—in a lot of countries—in the post-war period,” she says.
    
    Just not the parts you disagree with?
    
    I’m just confused here, because me and the author is saying the same thing…
    
    I’m just blunt, and they’re seemingly hesitant to say what their study concluded with.
    
    And you’re saying it’s not neoliberalism, and to listen to the authors…
    
    Who blame neoliberalism?
    
    It’s not mathing
    
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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Who the fuck else should we blame beside corporations and economic leaders for economic inequality?

If you accept the existence of a capitalist system (and I’m not sure we have a better option at the moment), then it’s fully expected that economic leaders and corporations will try to maximise inequality because, that’s their entire purpose and yardstick of success. There’s no point blaming them, they’re not about to change. Rather, the leaders themselves should be to blame for not implementing proper guidelines and wealth-redistribution systems.

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