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nforminvasion@lemmy.world 4 hours agoI am so glad to see someone else talking about this. Yeah, We’re going back to feudalism… And only the upper ranks of society will be able to afford goods and be able to engage in trade.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
I mean, it’s very arguable that we’ve just been doing “feudalism with extra steps” for a very long time anyway.
To be less US/Europe-centric than my original post, the majority of the world has been in the “priced out of anything bus bare subsistence” basket for most of the history of modern capitalism because only the citizens of the Imperial Democracies of the Western world were benefiting while the majority of the Southern and Eastern hemispheres were simply locked out from being beneficiaries either through trade embargoes or outright exploitation via not paying foreign workers the home-country equivalent, and instead paying them a much lower “localized” rate.
It’s really that the Imperial Boomerang has finally made it’s way home to the citizens of the West.