Albert Einstein is purported to have said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.” Of course, Einstein never met my mother during the holiday season. On one hand, I appreciate her persistence in wanting to get things just right to have a near perfect family Thanksgiving and/or Christmas. Her tenacity knows no bounds. But at some point, it just became way too much pressure despite the fact that it felt like something was always going wrong, like that one time during the holidays where literally everyone got sick except for my paternal step-grandfather.
The point I’m trying to make is that in this instance, the United States is like my parents; always trying to make the same thing work despite something always going wrong. This is especially true when it comes to the United States’s relationship status with capitalism, which I think many would agree be best described as “it’s complicated.” If you’d like to discover how complicated things are between the United States and Capitalism, well my friend, you are going to want to read this entire deep dive on medium though a link here, by clicking on the title or image.
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