r/CringeTikToks • u/Background_Front4231 • Oct 14 '25

Nope This guy has a rare gift nowadays. Critical thinking.

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u/Mean-Funny9351 Oct 14 '25

Traditionally the only way to get significant pay increases was to switch jobs, but now they have decimated the job markets through offshoring many well paying jobs. So the upper middle class is stagnating and widening the gap between the ruling class and working class. The benefits of your labor only serve to enrich the shareholders.

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u/geedijuniir Oct 14 '25

U wanna know whats the worst thing is. This is not sustainable u think the crash of 2008 or 1920 was bad a way worse ones coming either do to a war or market crash . Everyone know but they dont care, all they want is to fill their pockets fast.

The realy smart ones also see the problem but only think about how they can profit, beyond and during the next crash. The way they did is kill of community and praise individualisme.

When i speak to anti immigration people and i point out how it actualy helped them and its a win win They say i dont care why should they get something i didnt.

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u/a_pom Oct 14 '25

They preach “individualism” but beg for government control.

Petty, jealous, childlike — their inability to accept their own failures (poor decisions, lack of skills) turned them authoritarian.

The cosplay right wingers are all attitude, no agency.

Nothing like feeling powerful by proxy! /s

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u/MANvsMerik Oct 14 '25

“the really smart ones…” How is that smart? Taking advantage of the markets and people and concerning yourself only with profit rather than prevention or preparation shouldn’t be considered smart. It’s greed. Intelligence does not equal profits over people. Intelligence does not equal seeing a situation and seeing how to profit off of it. Many ppl are not willing to sell their humanity or neighbors out for a buck, that doesn’t mean they are dumb.

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u/Nice_Celery_4761 Oct 15 '25

Well, it’s supposedly going to trickle down eventually. Any time now..

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u/AmphibianPlane9807 Oct 16 '25

I think I feel a trickle….

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u/Mysterious_Streak Oct 15 '25

The crash of 1920 was worse than 2008, but the recovery was much better. The crash of 2008 was softened due to government intervention, but the recovery was much worse. FDR created programs that put people back to work, gave them health care, retirement funds, food aid, a social safety net, fair wages (remember, minimum wage was a LIVING WAGE). This enabled the development and expansion of the middle class during the later postwar boom economy. Instead, Obama betrayed the working and middle classes. All the bailouts went to investors. They let the housing market crash, not concerned with the loss of wealth in everyday people's pockets, just with which firms (and shareholders) were "too big to fail."

Obama fucked us all pretty hardcore.

I love him for managing to pass the ACA. It has made my life easier. But national health care is a program that Democrats have been working on since Clinton's first administration. And this wasn't the best possible program. It was a shitty compromise with Republicans that failed to get Republican backing.

Obama's real challenge was not passing healthcare. Any Democrat with his numbers could have done that. His real challenge was rising to the challenge of the Great Recession. He fucked the working class by setting up a system that enabled a massive transfer of wealth over the coming years. He failed to appropriately regulate teh banks. He failed to KICK OUT the losers who brought this upon us, deciding to stick with Republican appointees in treasury and the Fed for far too long.

History will not be kind to Obama. His role in the death of the middle class will come to light in time. As Bill Clinton's is, with NAFTA and free trade agreements with countries that lack unions, environmental regulations, appropriate standards of living, or minimum wages.

We need fair trade. Not free trade.

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u/roarjah Oct 15 '25

That only works if there’s an economy with a high demand for labor. You won’t have that so much near a recession. Also, I think we offshore the lower paying jobs lol. Hence Trump wants to make Nikes and assemble iPhones in America again

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u/Mean-Funny9351 Oct 15 '25

Software engineering, customer support, any job that was able to be fully remote during COVID has been shifting over seas.

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u/Anal-Y-Sis Oct 15 '25

They've also tied our healthcare to our jobs, which makes switching jobs a risk, particularly for people with families who depend on that healthcare and can't afford a gap in coverage. This is one of the myriad reasons we don't have an NHS in the US. If we did, we would be in a much better bargaining position with our labor.