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[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, good FDR-style social safety net and infrastructure programs and real progressive taxation would have easily saved capitalism. Unchecked greed may be its undoing.

Republicans (and their neoliberal collaborators) cutting regulations, hyper-concentrating wealth, and then screaming for decades about “Commies” is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy, it seems.

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

It already saved capitalism in the 1930s. It was never going to be a permanent solution, though, because it kept institutional power within the hands of capitalists, who will inevitably destroy the programs that kept workers off their asses because they’re capitalists