• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Always has been.

    The United States was founded by land owning business owners who didn’t want to pay taxes that didn’t benefit them directly (partially justified because of what it was for) who owned slaves and committed genocide to expand territory. The most venerated citizens are those that built their wealth by ruining the lives of their workers, abusing the patent system, and gangsters. Today’s hustle culture is just the current trend of tricking the poor into working 24 hours a day since we only get to have legal forced slavery in prisons.

    US culture has always been about the centralization of weath.