• Aniki@feddit.org
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    US quality of life is going down because labor market has lower demand. it used to be: economic growth -> high demand for labor -> high wages -> quality of life.

    the only thing that it has to do with being “west” was that new land -> lots of stuff to do -> growth -> high wages -> quality of life. once the land is settled, that stops.

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      6 hours ago

      If nazis in ww2 had propaganda as good as american dream, nobody would know they lost the war to this day.

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      actually, to live without economic growth takes entirely different strategies than the labor market and wage mechanism.

      it needs strategies that the US has not shown mastery of yet.