Oddbean new post about login | logout Kurt Vonnegut Jr. being sadly accurate in 1965's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater": "When the United States of America, which was meant to be a Utopia for all, was less than a century old, Noah Rosewater and a few men like him demonstrated the folly of the Founding Fathers in one respect: those sadly recent ancestors had not made it the law of the Utopia that the wealth of each citizen should be limited." #KurtVonnegut #KurtVonnegutJr #SocialCommentary #NothingChanges https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/111/064/031/484/031/621/original/8c7fbd0a22743156.jpeg https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/111/064/034/807/119/945/original/9c8648aa6df336fb.jpeg
"This oversight was engendered by a weak-kneed sympathy for those who loved expensive things... "Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage...
