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Inequality Then and Now: Now It's Too Late

In refusing to recognize that inequality had the potential to bring down the entire system, our delay has made that reckoning inevitable.

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Charles Hugh Smith
Nov 14, 2025
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The theme here is problems are not resolved, they’re papered over with profitable faux fixes. In my previous post, I described how the problem of our collective health crisis isn’t being resolved, it’s being milked for profit by faux “solutions” that don’t actually resolve the problem, they keep it on simmer because this is the most profitable arrangeme…

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