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This might be acceptable if there was even one single thing about YouTube that was itself democratic in any way.

Since there isn’t, this is inherently an inherently anti-democratic maneuver. The corporate oligarchy is shedding yet a bit mote hesitation to fully realize itself. This is not a good thing.

This is extremely disingenuous. The reason we aren’t having kids is we can’t afford it. All of my friends want to have kids but can’t. The few who have done so anyways are hurting.

Modern monetary theory is long overdue.

This is right, except the “predator nations” are really a ”predator class”. Working American have gotten a very raw deal. We have lost industry and jobs and wages galore to globalist projects. We may be the consenters of imperialism, but we are not the beneficiaries.

Ironically, the mid-century war on unions began with the state and the company owners acknowledging this very thing and proceeding to implement friendly unions. The result was working people gradually began distrusting their unions more and more, which brought us back to the drawing board.

>The idea you can simply shut down the economy at will and balance it with relief doesn't make economic sense.

Funny you say that because it seems to be no problem when it comes to bailing out corporate investors. Of course, near-zero federal interest rates didn’t make “economic sense” either, but yet here we are.

Some people think the richest country in the history of the world could figure something like this out, but those people don’t seem to understand how it became the richest country to begin with. The United States was built on laissez faire exploitation and that is not going to change overnight.