Over several decades, the market has been transformed into a financialized wild west where the interests of the investor class are sacrosanct and social need is secondary
  • mayo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Foreign investment got us started down this path. A ton of people moved here when UK handed HK sovereignty to China in the 90s.

    Investment is probably a bigger problem now but that was established by the initial foreign investment booms.