• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    The wealth was never meant to trickle down. That was just a line to keep the proles subservient and waiting.

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      That was just a line to keep the proles subservient and waiting.

      Huh? The trickle down line comes from comedian Will Rogers who was making a joke about how President Hoover, who was an engineer, was accustomed to water trickling down, but that he didn’t realize money trickles up.

      It was a line to serve the exact opposite – to tell the ‘proles’ that the economic plan was fundamentally flawed.

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        yeah, but it was repurposed for that. “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” also has its origins in a saying referring to something that is impossible, but was later repurposed into having the opposite connotation for most people.

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          Also when conservatives quote MLK about ‘judging people by the content of their character’, and nothing else.

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        Thanks. I learned something. I grew up hearing it discussed seriously in the 1980s, by which time I’m not sure everyone remembered the critical origin you identify. As I remember it, during the Reagan/Thatcher years many people treated the matter of whether and how the wealth would trickle down as a real live question.

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    The only thing trickling down is piss. People still drink it though.

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      Double the fent high I hear. Did somebody say something about an opiate crisis?

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      And it was just a rebranding of horse and sparrow economics, a 19th century concept. It was always a scam, they just made sure the media was never allowed to criticise it.

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      And fuck you. Fuck me. And fuck the 99%. That’s all we have to show for it.

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        Bad example.

        In some cases, a LOT of shit was fixed up in a massive crunch to ensure it wouldn’t fall over. Like shit-in-space kinda stuff as well as stuff that makes sure you have heat and light and hot clean water.

        It was a massive effort for some orgs and, grace of God and hard work, you never noticed.

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          That’s very true. I was struggling to think of a comparably equally obvious problem that isn’t worth mentioning every few months with a new “study”.

          I was going to say climate change, but that is worth mentioning and studying as much as possible, even though it’s been known exactly what’s happening and why we’re the ones driving it to happen for literally longer than anyone living person today.

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    If Canada has to use the United States as an example of the consequences of bad behavior, so as to prevent Canada from making the same mistakes ; then I support it.