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Originally Posted by someone123
It is a corrupt process that creates "Trumpism" as people lose trust in institutions and many are left out in the cold while they are told everything is fine (rent went up 50%? Too bad, stop buying avocado toast). Meanwhile, others cash in bigtime.
I feel like the rot is never truly exposed in Canada either. We had the foreign real estate bubble of the 2010's with bags of cash from China and nothing really came of it. Same with fake degrees in the 2020's. The hole eventually gets plugged or the schemes fizzle but where's the downside for the people who profited?
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So true. Are we somehow fundamentally more passive or otherwise accepting than other populations? Just look at how until the past year or so any discussion at all around immigration was verboten... and it mostly worked! People KNOW and can SEE firsthand meaningful declines in their living standard yet continue to vote for and support the same destructive policies that are harming them. Some kind of society-level Stockholm syndrome?!
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