[quote=briansd1]CA renter, actually it’s nothing new. If you read the novels of the past, whenever a family hits hard times, they would just fire a few servants. Of course the servants were too insignificant to ever be mentioned.
That’s the kind of trickle-down economics we’ve always lived under.
The Irish people have long suffered. They endured repeated periods of famine, poverty and emigration when there was nothing left to do but leave the country.
Oh yes, I’m familiar with the trend…just cynicism on my part.
It’s sad that huge swaths of the world’s population have to pay for the greed of the very few. If we could shrink the FIRE sector by 80%, I think the world would be far, far better off.
