If you have worked someplace that treated you well for years and one day there is a change in management and the first thing you hear is “we will be doing more with less” it is then time to immediately start looking hard for a new job. The voice of experience.
“- almost, I would say cancerous idea that business and capitalism had to endlessly multiply so that it was almost the only organ left in society that social change would now be delivered by these same people, mentalities, framework, resources-“
Reagan cut taxes, cut spending, caused austerity and white grievance and ultimately enabled Trump. The rich made government fail and then blamed government and called themselves the only solution. We were so instinctively and fundamentally enraged that even though we knew what he was, we elected him anyway, because he was the only one promising retribution. The snake is biting hard and the poison is spreading.