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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL trickle down economics is when you do massive military spending and use it to open up new markets in the third world to private interests and then meddle in those countries' politics constantly to keep them underdeveloped neocolonies

bruh please tell me how you think the middle class in the first world was created. Did they all just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s plenty of literature about the growth of the middle class in America and elsewhere and none of it talks about the United Fruit company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s plenty of ~~literature~~ propaganda about the growth of the middle class in America

what literature please

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stupid tankies asking for sources. That's basically thought police - aren't you bozos supposed to hate the police? Hahahaha gottem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh shit I'm about to go Tankie Mode (asking for sources)