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Month: May 2026

Explaining How America’s Fifty-Year-Old System of ‘Socialism for the Wealthy’ Works

Posted on May 25, 2026May 25, 2026 by Chevan Nanayakkara

A fifty-year pattern… the U.S. government uses its money-creation powers to inflate assets concentrated in the top 10%, then tells ordinary Americans the country can’t afford housing, healthcare, or education. The mythology is selectively applied. This essay walks through exactly how the machinery works, who built it across a hundred-year convergence, and the four moves ordinary Americans can use to reengineer it for themselves.

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