How the ladder was pulled up
And why the post-1984 generation that did it accidentally on purpose can't find a way to either climb back down, or lower the ladder to the generations born after 1984.
TLDR: A generation of voters in the 1980s and 1990s accidentally on purpose engineered a monstrous transfer of wealth to themselves and pushed huge costs on to future generations. They climbed to great riches on the backs of their parents and then pulled up the ladder for today’s young. Now these mostly older voters don’t know how to (or don’t want to) …
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