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Americans are feeling a hangover from their tariff-fueled buying frenzy early in the spring.
  • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Oh, so consumers stop consuming, retail companies fire employees to maintain profitability, etc. Few rounds of that and you have even more poor people who can be exploited to maintain the wealth inequality or even widen the gap. Was that the idea?

    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      Yep, sounds about right. United Prison of America.

      "They’re trying to build a prison,

      for you and me to live in."

      ~System of a Down