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"Bottom 60%" is a funny way of saying the majority. (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I think it makes more sense to frame it as the US being multiple countries. The DC-NY corridor is the imperial core. California is one of the more privileged client states like South Korea. The middle is exploited colonies.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 21 points 22 hours ago

No. USAins don't get to extract themselves from this. The spoils of empire are unevenly distributed but the USA is the fucking great Satan, you are complicit and the fact that you get ripped off in the deal doesn't change that. The American heartland isn't a fucking colony, it's a neglected region.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 19 points 23 hours ago

Over the last forty years, the human landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. The metamorphosis is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech, and the so-called creative class. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the darkness of the declining heartland or on the dimly lit fringe of sprawling cities. This is America’s hinterland, populated by towering grain threshers and hunched farmworkers, where laborers drawn from every corner of the world crowd into factories and “fulfillment centers” and where cold storage trailers are filled with fentanyl-bloated corpses when the morgues cannot contain the dead.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484.html