there's something more sinister at hand here. i'm not sure what the long play is.
i can grant a trickle down economics mistake in policy, even if the idea came from a selfish bad place.
fool me once, shame on you
but we're 40 years into this failure. it's safe to say that we see the short term effects for the shit they are. the promised medium and long term effects can no longer be promised. it's fucking played out, but people still buy into it.
fool me twice, can't get fooled again, and again, and again, and again
goddammit.
how are we still fucking haunted by the 80s forty fucking years later? an entire decade of excess, built upon the success of being the only functional manufacturing power amidst a ruined world economy. everything in the 80s was a short term flash in the fucking pan. no real long term thinking, just short term (appearance of) success is all that matters. what's that you say? our current policy of dumping toxic waste into drinking waterways will have terrible long term effects? how long term we talking? oh, a century or so? i'll be dead, and i'm sure they'll have figured all that shit out by then. how are next quarter's revenue figures looking? that's what really matters!
nothing from the 80s lasted because it was all built to be short term bullshit.
well, the bill is finally coming fucking due. and yet we still have these fucking pyramid scheme middle men out there trying to promise the rubes that if they sell just a few more widgets, this will be the year we can finally hit 100% bonus and get that 5% payrise instead of these annual 2% "merit" increases. what the middle men don't realize is that they are also the fucking rubes. we're all rubes.
the profits are never shared.
full disclosure: this post written while listening to some dead kennedys inspiration.