remember when there used to be all these articles about how people in europe live longer than americans because they drink red wine and eat more olive oil or bullshit like that? turns out it was universal healthcare the whole time

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's a cultural effect, I think it's about power and wealth. As in, the US has more power and wealth at its disposal, so capitalists gain more by corrupting their government than they would other governments. So they spend more money and effort corrupting that place and it gets worse. It is slowly collapsing as the corruption gets worse, I'd say this is a large part of why any centralised power structure collapses - the corruption rots its core until it can no longer sustain itself.

So it's basically "power corrupts" but on a governmental level rather than an individual one.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

So eat the rich? Got it. If more people would understand society as a class struggle, maybe we would get somewhere.