09-12-2020, 08:43 AM
(09-11-2020, 09:10 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(09-11-2020, 05:43 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: "[P]rogressive redisritibution of wealth" isn't an actual solution, anyway. What's needed is a systemic change from rewarding capital investment to rewarding working. That took 17 years, from 1929 to 1946, last time around. We're party way through that, but we've got at least 5 years to go, and a war to get through first.
That actually underestimates the length of the progressive pro worker time. Strong unions, strong benefit and in general benefits towards the workers continued through LBJ. Reversing that has barely begun.
I agree, and would actually argue that the second half of that period actually mended the ills of the Gilded Age -- and then it ended. We Boomers missed the forest for the trees, and acted against our own interests by being the antiestablishment types we were. That opened the door to the rapacious behavior of the New Right and, later, the neoliberals. So yes, we're to blame, but in no position to right those wrongs except joining with the Millennials. It's going to be their show from now on.
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