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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 140 points 1 year ago (20 children)

And the wealthy manage to come out on top every single time.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 74 points 1 year ago

When you're the ones manufacturing the crisis, it's easier to prepare and profit from it

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 16 points 1 year ago

When they should really come out 6 feet under.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 112 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It starts to make sense when you realize that each of those events is basically a fire sale for billionaire investors.

Just look at income inequality before/after each of those events.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I was going to say I live in a "50 year flood plain" and I’ve seen 3 floods in the last 16 years.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget the wildfires.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I know there have been people predicting they live in the "end times" for all of humanity. But I can't help but feel like our generation isn't crying wolf like the others.

[–] ScrotusMaximus@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago

Don't forget - you were also BORN into a once in a generation economic crisis: The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was the failure of approximately a third of the savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995. These thrifts were banks that historically specialized in fixed-rate mortgage lending.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

[–] HaiZhung@feddit.org 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s the same crisis, in various stages of escalation. The rich are squeezing more and more of the lower and middle class all over the world, and there is almost nothing left to squeeze.

The next few years will bring a massive collapse in government services (the USA is starting) for ordinary people, because that is one of the last things that the rich can still squeeze out.

After that, there will be only the ultra rich and the destitute poor left; and the ultra rich will only be able to take from each other.

This will mean war, and they will send you all into it.

Unless we stop it now. Tax the rich.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

After that, there will be only the ultra rich and the destitute poor left; and the ultra rich will only be able to take from each other.

It's already starting to happen. Half of consumer spending in the US is done by just the top 10% of earners. For an economy built on consumer spending this means that you get more economic growth by giving those rich people more money to spend, not by lifting up the other 90%.

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[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I don’t think boomers are very good at running things.

[–] nocklobster@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They grew up in a for the most part prosperous time, middle class had 2 cars in the driveway, jobs were easier to obtain, it's no wonder alot of them think the way they do.

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[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

and every time the rich get richer, funny that.

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry tho, because although everyone's broke as shit, the houses you bought in the 90s when you were a young child are worth like 10 times as much now!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bought houses as a child?

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, you didn't use your 1994 influencer money to buy houses?

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Pffft, I used money from delivering the morning papers to buy my first house. When I was 11, ELEVEN!!
However it was the delivering of milk that really helped me afford my first yacht! Every morning for months I got at 4am to deliver it. That was a hard 3 and a half months I can tell you!

You guys should just pull yourselves up by the avocados, and stop eating so many bootstraps!!

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This hits too hard. I was born in 83, so even the ages line up.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

82 here and obligatory fuck this timeline

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[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't mean to be that guy, but look which US political party was in charge for each of those dates...

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

2002 - Bush II, Republican

2008 - Bush II, Republican

2020 - Trump, Republican

2025 - Trump, Republican

Cheat sheet.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 19 points 1 year ago

Trump approves, "The economy does better under Democrats than the Republicans"

Donald Trump, 2004, on the CNN Show 'The Apprentice'

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crisis seems like the natural operating mode of c*pitalism

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[–] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You start noticing this pattern after some decades.
Always accompanied by "we need to temporarily tighten the belt now to keep our properity for the following generations".
The period before is sold as a great economic time, despite that they called it a crisis back then and also 'needed' austerity measures to get back to the prosperity of the previous period.
The western standard of living has been destroyed bit by bit since the post WW2 period with this tactic, not for the multinationals, banks, stock folks OC, that's where the stolen money goes to.
The ones in power telling us in their paid press how great 'the econonomy' is doing bcs stock line go up and BS GDP up.
In reality that means more billions in the pockets of a few oligarchs while income equality is growing.

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[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If it worked to funnel money to the wealthy the first time why not the second? Or third... and so on.

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Capitalism cannot continue to exist without it begging for socialist bailouts.

Just proves that socialism is superior. It can even float a shit system like capitalism as it continues to fail.

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[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2002: We lost the house 2008: got evicted from apartment 2020: dad died from covid 2025: let's see how it goes this time

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago

That's fucking rough dude, I hope the world throws you a bone this time and just leaves you alone for once.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know who came up with this "once a generation" bullshit, but you can see that economic crises were more often than once a decade in 20th century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises#20th_century

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[–] EFrances@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

what did you expect? You were born in 1984 ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

edit: added link to book

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wait, I miss this, did a new recession just drop?

[–] vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If it hasn't yet it's about to. 1-5% daily drops across the stock market for the past month pretty much and now with a 10%+ minimum tariff on all imports means everything is going to get way more expensive. I'll chew a brick if we're not in a recession by the end of the year

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At that point, is it a recession or should we just call the 2020s: depression part 2 AI boogaloo?

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[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Not officially, no.

But yes, it's already here.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I'm tired, boss.

[–] oysterenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] takeiteasypolicy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, if US attacks Canada, Greenland, Panama, Greenland and Iran, then we will see once in 10 generation stuff !

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