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[–] taanegl@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's just boomers realizing how they fucked it up for every generation to come.

"New public management"? "Job creators"?! "TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS?!" Old man, you'd better smoke two.

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nah it's just boomers realizing their children are going to fuck shit up even more than they did.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.ml 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Naw, this been a long time coming. It's what we call slow moving economic and political development.

Raegen and Thatcher were wrong, new public management was a mistake and "liberalization" really just means "let the finance industry run things - surely what will go wrong?"

So we're fucking up by not changing precedent set, what, 60-70 years ago?

We could compromise and say materialism rots everybody's brains.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

"Trickle Down" was a rebrand. It used to be called Horse and Sparrow Economics.

If Boomers hadn't been so collectively ignorant and narcissistic, they would have maybe realized how fucking stupid their voting choices were. They had the opportunity to get higher educations for the cost of a reasonably priced car, but instead chose to stew in their lack of understanding for 50 years, while gas-lighting everyone within earshot with made up nonsense.

Boomers are precisely why America is in the position it's in now.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The think tanks working for the robber barons didn't hit the mark at first, but my god if it didn't take after a white lol

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

That typo is perfect