alt Hacker NewsYou can make a credible argument that the American society is less free, less equal, and less equitable than it was at its founding?
There are just so many ways in which this seems crazy to me. I feel like you think you’re luring me into some sort of rhetorical trap - but to pick the two elephants in the room, a large proportion of the population was literally owned by other people, and only white male landowners could vote.
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mohamedkoubaa • yesterday at 10:31 PM
Income tax did not exist at the time of founding. The freedom to spend freely from the fruits of one's labor has been lost.
That wasn’t the claim: it was that the tocks always outpace the ticks.
One area that this extremely obviously does not align with is immigration. Privacy is another area in steady decline for generations.
It’s very reasonable to consider that in many areas we may regress to a mean somewhere in between founding days and the peak.