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  • grafician2

    "The US Is Officially A Banana Republic: The Top 1% Now Own More Wealth Than The Entire Middle Class"

    https://www.zerohedge.com/market…

    • 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

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