The 40-Year Robbing of Rural America - In These Times
https://inthesetimes.com/article/financial-capital-sacrifice-zones-robbing-rural-america
"What’s really going on is that the government can’t manage capitalism anymore. It has been captured by forces that don’t want it to manage capitalism."
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"One of the insidious things about financialization is its invisibility to the people most negatively impacted by it."
Commentary on how #capitalism is stealing livelihoods from the rural poor and depositing their wealth and wealth potential into #capital owned by the (often urban) wealthy. The invisibility aspect leads to the rural poor supporting the urban wealthy in politics, which ensures the system perpetuates.
