Comment on Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment
unpossum@sh.itjust.works 19 hours agoMostly for white people, and mostly because the US had built out an enormous industrial base to win WWII, and also was in the unique position of not having been destroyed by the war.
hector@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
Which is the typical ad hominem to respond to the unanswerable charge that the rich have taken our middle class lifestyle and replaced it with poverty, reduced even the wealthy to just getting by status. Use emotional arguments, and slander, to obscure the issue.
The one here, that because injustice existed it doesn’t count that we all had a higher standard of living that the rich took away from us, doesn’t make any sense though does it?
Explain to me, how it negates recognizing the rich have taken from working people, because society wasn’t egalitarian when working people extracted the highest standard of living ever?
unpossum@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
…I don’t understand your comment, I think. Is pointing out historical facts ad hominem? My (small) point was that I’m not certain that the sudden prosperity that some workers in the US enjoyed was entirely sustainable. That said, the development since the seventies or so has definitely gone hard in the other direction. I’m not competent to comment on the causes, but successful deunionization, destruction of the educational system, and overseas outsourcing of everything productive are probably in there somewhere.
hector@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Your point, is the same as anyone that wants to discount that we have been robbed of a living wage, and the facts don’t back you up, you change the subject to bigotry that existed.
I don’t understand your comment, tell me how racism that existed changes how our living wage was taken from us?
No time in history was without some kind of prejudice, you are dancing around it now.
Not sustainable, for working people to get a living wage you are saying. They really did a number on you huh?