> Even if/when it does change, history shows that we'll probably just wind up with a new boss who's the same as the old boss.

But history doesn’t show anything of the sort? History instead shows a clear path to how Europe ended up with the bottom 50% ending up with a much larger portion of wealth than the top 1%.

What’s remarkable here is not how impossible change is, but how Americans have utterly resigned themselves to the supposed unchanging inevitability of their current situation despite clear evidence that alternative modes of operating aren’t just possible but clearly exist right now.

America’s primary problem with change seems first and foremost to be its own fatalistic delusion that being any other way is impossible.