• MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    almost accurate. financial regulations put in place after the Great Depression kept relative stability for 50 years. as deregulation accelerted at the end if the 80s, swings resumed and we are niw in the boom/bust cycles that were so painful from 1870 to 1933.

    Also not coincidentally the time of the robber barons

    • eatshitforeverbutinaniceway@quokk.au
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      12 hours ago

      they and their kin must be made a terrible example of. if the only basis for society is punishment, we must punish them more, and have more society. breed them to punish, I guess, if we can’t do a utopia.