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If it sounds twentieth-century, it is. Yet, in 2023, conservatives still complain about communism and, leftists, feudalism.(...)
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The New Feudalism
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It’s as though the 1980s never happened. For many Gen Xers like me, until the 2008 financial crisis, the free market was the only game in town.(...)