Like there’s just no more talk of “the American dream” anymore. It’s never been real but we all know now exactly how much bullshit that is. It’s like the facade has been fully torn away and we’re all tied to this terrible husk of a machine that doesn’t even have the decency to pretend things will get better anymore
Modern Monetary Theory tries to describe what we've been doing. It adapts a lot of Keynesian ideas to a world where we're no longer on the gold standard, i.e., where we have far more control over our monetary supply.