>>10190029No, financial fuck-nuts did as they always do:
- We lost KB Toys AND Toys R Us because of Bain Capital using them as piggy banks to shore up outside interests.
- Toys jumped in prices after Mattel decided, knowingly, to cheap out and use lead paint.
- Louis DeJoy, still head of USPS since Trump appointed him, had a mass destruction of mail sorting machines, revoked masses of overtime options for workers, etc, and was given this post having financial ties to UPS via XPO. This slows down and creates more cost in the mail industry. Bonus round: Republicans put a 2006 bill into effect that financially weighs on the post, Trump was poised to veto a $13 billion GRANT until Congress turned it into a $10 billion LOAN. Not to say Dems are any good at propping up an important competitor to UPS/Fedex etc, but they haven't been actively smashing shit either.
- Financial motivations to keep the possibility of cheap, renewable options off the market to maintain strangleholds on energy have long provided upticks in cost of shipping and material goods. It makes more 'financial' sense to keep your product from being easily reproducible/exclusive to yourself, even if it harms everyone else. See insulin/pharmabros.
- 2008 Financial crisis and similar situations continuously fuck everyone else. This is a fuck to both sides as both Bush and Obama administrations absolutely sucked finance's dick because rather than bust the fucks who caused it, they just protected the banks.
The problem isn't politics, it's entrenched power-brokers who worship cash more than any other metric of healthy societal growth. We saw what they did when the masses poked the Stock Market back during Robin Hood/Gamestop Stock days. They aren't your friend, they just want your money. They're in all parties especially now because they got guys on the Supreme Court to accept that "Money is Speech" and "Corporations are People". Dems are just quieter about it, unless they're Sinema or Manchin.
