It's striking that, in my class on Future Histories, none of the students seem to envision futures that involve less inequality than we have now. It's always radically more.
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@ntnsndr the loss of optimism, and the loss of faith in even the possibility of collective action, are two of the defining wounds to the imagination in our age
@ntnsndr I'm not surprised by that at all. Not only are things trending that way, but historically the post-WWII consensus led to the most egalitarian period in history.
Sadly, I think it's a blip and everything points to growing inequality and segregation between the haves and have-nots.
@dajb @ntnsndr yea, capitalism is working!
Growing inequality is a systemic feature of capitalism. As soon as someone can outgrow their capital by a bigger margin, these people can rig the equal playing field and cause more inequality.
This has to be carefully regulated or you get ruled by money. Guess at what state we are in this current world?
