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tgvyesterday at 6:24 PM1 replyview on HN

The internet has made Bezos rich and newspapers poor. It was practically unavoidable in a society where greed has become the norm.


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tharmasyesterday at 6:37 PM

Don't forget the people who voted for "Get the Government off the [rich] people's back". Ronald Reagan and every subsequent government since. Neoliberalism. The rest of the Anglosphere followed suit.

It (Neoliberalism) was supposed to re-energize American Capitalism. Instead it gave birth to Rentier-Capitalism. See Brett Christophers for a more detailed analysis.