1971 is when we moved off the gold standard and began allowing the Fed to print endless money. What came next? Scroll this…
Or per Caitlin Johnstone, maybe it’s because we do capitalism. I thought we were doing that before 1973 too, but eh, let her feel good about the point.
The dark blue line after 1973 is theft. They stole that money from their workers. But nothing happened, because capitalism legalizes theft from the working class by the capitalist class.
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Coincidence?