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Yep, video kind of touches on how neoliberalism has led to the same thing:

was that in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system, know that the politicians had no alternative vision. And they knew that the bosses knew that they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal.

For almost as long we haven't viewed capitalism as a fair system that works for everyone, it's a set of rules filled with loopholes and the goal is to abuse loopholes in anyway possible to maximize personal resources.

It's not a new idea to say capitalism faces the same problems.

The entire point of monopoly was to show business success in a capitalist country is mostly just luck and random chance. Even if we start equal, one person will eventually accumulate all the resources to the detriment of everyone else:

In 1903, Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord's Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and caused tenants to be impoverished. She knew that some people would find it hard to understand the logic behind the idea and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution to it were put into the concrete form of a game, it might be easier to demonstrate.

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

Instead it was used to instill capitalist drive in generations of impressionable children... Under a system where no one could seriously argue we all start on the same square.

Like, we're essentially joining a game after one player has already bought up all the properties.

There's no path we can "win" even if we cheat, we'll never be able to actually win, just delay losing a little longer.

Bonus points:

I take mine off the top like a politician

Where I'm from doing dirt is a part of living

I got mouths to feed I gots to get it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGjSq4HqP9Y

For an example of people treating the system as something to be exploited. It's been hyper normalized for decades now.

Because if the wealthy and powerful break the rules, we have zero chance of keeping up if we follow.

But a more recent example is the "hack" kids were using at atms which was just wire/check fraud. It doesn't matter if something breaks the rules, it matters if there's immediate consequences or not.

It's been the downfall of society going back before Rome. Everything is built on the social contract, when that goes, so does society.