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"The US Is Officially A Banana Republic: The Top 1% Now Own More Wealth Than The Entire Middle Class"
- why don't we all just give all of our money to one person and get this monopoly game over with?Milan
- BANANA REPUBLIC: a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the exportation of a limited-resource. - So this is the US?Morning_star
- its typically any country where the majority are exploited for the profit of an elite classkingsteven
- not elite, but criminal or delinquent.uan
- It actually goes back to US fruit companies overthrowing the government of Honduras and establishing a military dictatorship so they could grow bananas there.yuekit
- @ Kingsteven, no it isn't.Morning_star
- There was a guy named "Sam the Banana Man" who hired a private army and invaded Honduras killing hundreds of people. Later became CEO of Chiquita Bananayuekit
- If only language evolved.Nairn
- @yeukit. The whole story behind Honuras and it's bananas is fascinating.
For those who don't know: https://www.thoughtc…Morning_star - https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Ha ha ha, fuck yes.Morning_star
- Banana Republic -- what a lovely name for a store that sells stuff business attire.shellie
- Seems kind of insane that they named the store that considering the historyyuekit
- Their clothes used to look like safari shit. Like a business man going to the banana republic he created and profited on. Ugh.monospaced
- i know where the term originated, but he defines it in the article (or wikipedia, or anything that's not an article about the origins of the phrase)kingsteven
- He redefines it because there is little to no value in the articles content. This is Clickbait or Communist Propaganda as i have redifined it.Morning_star
- hah, zerohedge is a right-libertarian rag is it not?kingsteven
- Zerohedge is not even a rag. It's the blog of a European investment banker that actually signs his posts as "Tyler Durden". So yeah, just an opinion piece.garbage
- I think he's now in the states, and can't do banking anymore because of crimes. So he runs a blog where everyone posts under that name.garbage
- it's not a right-libertarian rag (low quality news source), it's a right-libertarian blog (low quality news source). gotchakingsteven
- It's a right-libertarian blog with a shocking amount of followers.garbage
- In Tyler we trust ;)Morning_star