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paleotn

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24. We let them.

Sun Jan 5, 2025, 03:49 PM

Jan 2025

Lots of blame to go around. Including American workers who lined up behind Reagan in 1980. We forgot that business, if left unchecked, would reduce American workers to the squalor of pre-WW2, pre-FDR America. Maybe that's due to American culture where business and labor always consider themselves advisories, instead of the European and Japanese model where they view each other as equal partners. A lot of blame to go around.

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