{"id":1745,"date":"2026-04-19T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:19:04","slug":"19-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/19\/19-03\/","title":{"rendered":"19\/03"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Worsening living standards are mostly driven by a genuinely unprecedented rise in wealth inequality, i.e. the present absurdly skewed and rapidly worsening maldistribution of asset ownership. Since the 1980s, governments worldwide have been on a privatization bender, artificially balancing the books by selling off public assets; the end result is what we&#8217;re seeing now, where governments <em>can&#8217;t afford<\/em> to provide services at anything like pre-1980s levels because they don&#8217;t <em>own<\/em> anything now and have to rent it instead or otherwise partner with the private sector to provide worse services at vastly greater expense.<\/p>\n<p>Until governments get serious about imposing wealth taxes with enough bite to encourage the tiny ultra-wealthy minority to sell some assets back to the rest of us, those governments will remain largely incapable of getting a handle on cost of living pressures and will therefore <em>all<\/em> most likely be relatively short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason the Right has done so well over the last decade or so is that they seized control of the worsening cost-of-living narrative and ran the line that <em>migrants<\/em> were responsible for it, and that just being mean to migrants would therefore fix everything. But that&#8217;s a complete lie, obviously, and because it&#8217;s both a complete lie <em>and<\/em> the Right&#8217;s only genuine policy idea, being mean to migrants actually does <em>fuck all<\/em> to address cost of living pressures and people all over the world are finally starting to wake up to that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poimittu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/212852\/Blue-Danube#8831223\">Metafilterin Unkari-\/Orban-keskustelusta<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worsening living standards are mostly driven by a genuinely unprecedented rise in wealth inequality, i.e. the present absurdly skewed and rapidly worsening maldistribution of asset ownership. Since the 1980s, governments worldwide have been on a privatization bender, artificially balancing the books by selling off public assets; the end result is what we&#8217;re seeing now, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alleviivattua","category-universumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}