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

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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• ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “A new study finds” what communists have been saying for over a century…

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  • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This was discussed in 16th century England by the Diggers. I’m not sure the researchers did much “studying” in school.

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  • azi@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    New palace construction drains royal treasuries, a new study finds

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• Chuymatt@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yah. We noticed.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This seems… apparent.

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• TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Does this study have any groundbreaking insights into the wetness of water?

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No but this does.

    journals.physiology.org/doi/full/…/jn.00120.2014

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Were you expecting a new quantum physics theory? This is how science works.

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    • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just thought this was widely accepted as fact.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And vice versa.

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