Lower-income American households are running out of money at the end of every month, the discount retailer Dollar General said as it released dismal results that drove its shares down more than 30 per cent for their sharpest one-day drop on record.

When the American economy is too rough for Dollar General...

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Remember, the coolzone will not happen without organising.

    Americans will not spontaneously rise up. They will just get poorer, more miserable, more criminal, more fucked.

    There are places everywhere all over the world that are more desperately poor. And without organising they too do not spontaneously rise up. They simply die.

    The work needs doing.

    • dukedevin [they/them, any]
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      2 months ago

      i think ppl who say things like "once conditions are bad enough, we'll start party rockin'" is unaware of things like hierarchy of needs or how bad things used to be historically (in the us)