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Farmer-Rick

(12,388 posts)
6. Exactly right
Tue Jan 31, 2023, 11:05 AM
Jan 2023

I was just posting this.

It's all about the money. It's all about profits and capital. It's a feature of capitalism and can be seen in many of our financial crashes.

Austerity was used as a way to get the middle class and poor to pay for the failures of the filthy rich. And everyone loved it...... except the middle class who lost their houses and the poor who are used almost as slave labor.

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