I for the life of me cannot understand why everyone just rolls over. There is no fight. Media, CEOs, Lawmakers, there’s no protest and no pushback. It’s insanity.
I think most self-aware people know which way the pendulum is swinging, and the reason there’s “no fight” right now is because those of us who know what’s coming next are too busy protecting ourselves to organize protests again. We did Occupy Wall Street, we did XR, we did BLM and Gaza and anti-ICE, but those with their hands on the levers of power have made it abundantly clear that nothing will change until they’re dead, regardless of how many other people suffer and die before them.
And so, we’re making sure they die first by prioritizing our present survival and taking targeted opportunities when they present themselves, rather than trying to organize a mass movement that most of our peers refuse to give a shit about because they can still make rent as a burrito taxi with three roommates, for now.
CRT is just history, and the current holders of power are terrified at being held accountable for historical errors and choices, hence the opposition to it.
Wall Street hates anything that breaks up or diversifies those at the top, and it’s why they were all too happy to embrace these on the surface when hiring was tight, and then throw them aside as soon as it was more profitable to do so.
Trying to ascribe morality to capital is like anthropomorphizing your lounge chair, and also why I’m in the “no corps at Pride” camp: objects don’t have ethics.
Stability is more profitable than chaos.
I assume megacorp executives think they'll be able to achieve regulatory capture to the point where they'll remain on top forever, but I don't agree with that conclusion.
Hubris is a heluva drug.
It’s good for them in the near term and absolutely sucks for the competiveness of the US economy longer term