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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We also exported modern capital markets, and their absolute sociopathy and cold cruelty towards their own societies, people, and planet, exclusively in the name of short-term, private profit at all costs.

I feel extreme guilt as an American for our successful poisoning of Western Europe with our hyper-individualist "fuck you I got mine" cultural race to the bottom values. The UK used to have a sense of community, believe it or not.