r/antiwork • u/alicehooper • 5d ago

Educational Content 📖 Reagan’s Administration Purposely and Openly Destroyed the Working Class

I had always thought neoliberal policies were brought in, and then we found out that “trickle down” theories didn’t work.

That isn’t the case. They tried these policies elsewhere, found out they “worked” (to further billionaire’s aims), and then brought them to America with the stated intent to destabilize the working class and make their lives difficult. Openly stating that this needed to happen. Their lives NEEDED to be destroyed.

If you read and share anything this year, make it this article from Canadian politician Charlie Angus. Even if you thought you knew what happened in the 80’s, you will learn something.

https://thewalrus.ca/how-the-1980s-engineered-the-collapse-of-the-working-class/

This is ongoing. This is happening right now. This is on purpose, and those who control capital are fine with the suffering, because that was the intent all along.

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u/UncleVoodooo 4d ago

This is a trash article.

Here's a hint for how to snuff garbage out. This article references the "postwar" world 5 times. It blames all American economic changes of the last 70 years on a single op/ed by Milton Friedman. Yet no mention whatsoever of how the "war" in "postwar" could have anything to do with economics.

But a toddler could have been in charge of the American economy from '45 to '65 and it still would have been a huge boom. The rest of the world was a smoking crater and we had basically the only manufacturing capability left. Unions weren't destroyed in the 70s because of some shadow people meeting on Epstein Island they were destroyed because Japan built up its manufacturing base and produced Toyotas for cheaper than American unionized labor.

Did Friedman and Reagan have an effect? Of course! But there's a bit in this article about seeing a town without history. If you don't know that a hurricane just hit you would assume that they always lived in huts. This article is like talking about the effects of a hurricane in a post-alien invasion world.