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Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022)

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122 points throw0101b | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.638s | source
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exiguus ◴[02 Jul 25 13:05 UTC] No.44443255[source]▶
I see some parallels to Curtis Yarvin and the Boys that follow his philosophy. The funny part, with all this boys is, that they do not recognise, that there utopia e.g. new society/state, does not work without the current society that sponsors them.

Basically, the same with some global corporations, which literally suck society dry (infrastructure, resources, education, labour, health system) and give almost nothing back (except for a few workers and too few taxes). I think the American dream is over. It's an empty shell that's all about making a nice life for yourself at the expense of others.

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a4isms ◴[02 Jul 25 13:52 UTC] No.44443747[source]▶
> I think the American dream is over.

“The reason they call it The American Dream is that you have to be asleep to believe it.”

—George Carlin (1937 - 2008)

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1. throw0101b ◴[05 Jul 25 11:00 UTC] No.44471826[source]▶
> “The reason they call it The American Dream is that you have to be asleep to believe it.”

It was fairly real up until about the 1970s: every generation had it better than the one before it. After the 1980s, Gen-X and everyone after them started having a tougher time.