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‘Who Wants to Live Like This?’ Locals Fume as Meta AI Data Center Upends Entire Community
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No, this is exactly what capitalism has done through most of its history. Whether in the imperial core or not. We pretend to think that capitalism was what the white working class Americans enjoyed back in post WW2. It's why "MAGA" exists. It's the belief in the same lie.
Seriously, go look back and look at pre 1950s American capitalism. It's literally just company towns and chemical dumping everywhere. It's exactly like this and always has been. We just focus on a specific time in post WW2 that only existed, as "good", in reality for a minority of the population.
Capitalism doesn't share it's surplus with the working class of its own nation unless it feels threatened enough to offer some concessions. Something it definitely felt in a post WW2 in which FDR (really only because of militant labor movements) and the USSR had influenced.