The wealth was never meant to trickle down. That was just a line to keep the proles subservient and waiting.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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Yup. Reagan and Thatcher just did what their rich friends wanted them to do, and fucked us and the earth for a long time.
Macron is doing that to France right now. It's not gonna be pretty.
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 β to tell the 'proles' that the economic plan was fundamentally flawed.
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.
Also when conservatives quote MLK about 'judging people by the content of their character', and nothing else.
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.
The only thing trickling down is piss. People still drink it though.
Double the fent high I hear. Did somebody say something about an opiate crisis?
In other news, water is wet. Heat... hot!
The only news here is that it's in the news.
Fifty. Fucking. Years.
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.
It's why they bought almost all the media companies.
The medium is the message (or massage). Always has been.
And fuck you. Fuck me. And fuck the 99%. That's all we have to show for it.
We knew this before.
Breaking news! New 2023 studies find that Y2K did little to negatively impact technology.
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.
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.
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.
Feels like that's a not insignificant part of our national identity.
Let's be honest, a forced contrast with America is most of Anglo Canadian identity.
I'm shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!
Well color me surprise-
Ah shit nobody can afford color anymore
For those just realizing, that this was the plan...
well lets try another 50 just to be sure
What really????1??!
Good to have hard numbers, I guess.
No way!
Rich people: Give us all the money and we'll let you have a little.
Liberal voters: Fuck off!
Conservative voters: Ok!
Liberal voters: We told you so.
Conservative voters: Any day now...