#indebted — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #indebted, aggregated by home.social.
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While #Congress & the presidency have been working hard to raise the #ExecutiveBranch above the #law, #SCOTUS has done its part to ensure that laws against #bribery & #corruption are near-unenforceable. With a series of rulings on #CampaignFinance, the #JohnRoberts Court has ensured that the #rich can try to buy #elections without formally breaking the law. As a result, #politicians are #indebted to a few hundred #billionaires who drop unholy amounts of cash every #election cycle.
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Despite how #talkingHeads in our media like to #virtueSignal by showing support for open-borders, it's not a great thing for the vast majority. Currently the west has a type of "open borders".
Its if-you-are-a-perfect-subservient-worker type of open-border, despite what some will have you believe.
The fact remains that rapid #populationGrowth favours the #extremelyWealthy, who benefit by having more #consumers, and a more #indebted and #desperate pool of workers to choose from. N..(2/5)