This is a very on-point observation on the postwar period that I haven’t really seen anyone make, the only thing I would add is that it wasn’t always a foregone conclusion that the prosperity was capped, and perhaps it still isn’t, but it’s harder than ever to imagine 
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Replying to @annakhachiyan
Disagree. It looks like analysis but scratch the plating, whoops, all ruthless social control via adjustment of expectations. Why, one might ask, was 1950s capitalism so generous? Expect an answer involving racialized colonialism - at the nadir of empire in the third world.
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Replying to @jackfruitstaken @annakhachiyan
wait are you just like making up positions you don’t like and ascribing them to me? seems like a pretty weird thing to do bro
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Replying to @as_a_worker @annakhachiyan
Merely anticipating a response. Ascribing beliefs to leftists is a category error, as should be clear from my second sentence.
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