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[โ€“] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To me it always seems to come back to nobility. Big corpo is the new nobility and they have certain privileges not available to the common folk. In theory it shouldn't exist but in practice it most certainly does.

[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The aristocracy never died, it just got a new name.

I mean the US is literally built on the fact that the aristocracy in the US didn't actually want to lose station, so they built a democracy that included many anti-democratic measures from the Senate to the Electoral College to only allowing land-owning white men to vote. The US was purpose built to serve the rich while paying lip-service to the poor.

"Conservatives" were literally always those who wanted to conserve the monarchy and aristocracy. Those were the things they originally wanted to conserve, and plainly still fucking do.

How people do not see this is a complete farce.