like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

  • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1234·
    11 months ago

    Yeah, we may be at checkmate. Unlike the end of the age of the robber barons, when we reformed capitalism in the late 1800s / early 1900s in the US… this time the capitalists have purchased enough politicians to stop reform completely and forever.

      • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
        103·
        11 months ago

        Yes, but not at the same scale. They’ve become masters at it in the modern age.

        • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
          181·
          11 months ago

          I dunno, from what I’ve read about political machines in the gilded age it was really just as bad back then.

          • rambaroo@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            People worked 12 hour shifts 6 days a week back then with no minimum wage. A lot of people lived in company towns and didn’t even get paid in real money. Child labor was legal and widespread, although some shit hole states are getting back to that.

            Things are bad now but anyone who thinks it’s as bad as it was in the gilded age is either delusional or extremely ignorant. There’s a reason the progressive era happened, people were pushed beyond their limits and propaganda couldn’t make up for that anymore.

    • Godric@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      Hey man, the FTC is doing anti-trust like nobody’s business for the first time since gods-know-when. It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s progress for the first time in forever!