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Darth Powell@VladTheInflator
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Oct 22, 2025
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1. The Original Shift
Starting in the 1970s–80s, Western elites (corporate and political) faced a problem:
Labor was getting too expensive.
Unions were powerful.
Productivity gains were being shared with workers.
The solution? Globalization + identity politics.
They offshored industry to cheaper countries (destroying domestic labor power) and reframed politics around identity instead of class.
That way, working-class people stopped uniting across racial and cultural lines — they started fighting each other.
2. Economic Reality
The data back this up:
Wage growth decoupled from productivity around 1973.
Union membership collapsed from ~30% of U.S. workers in the 1950s to ~10% today.
Meanwhile, the top 1% share of income and wealth exploded.
The timing perfectly overlaps with the rise of “diversity” and “representation” as corporate and political slogans.
3. Cultural Distraction
“Diversity” became a moral shield — a way for elite institutions to appear virtuous while tightening economic control.
Wall Street banks push DEI campaigns while buying up homes.
Tech giants parade inclusivity while automating away jobs.
Governments use demographic division to fragment political unity.
4. Bottom Line
It wasn’t about diversity — it was about neutralizing the working class by replacing economic solidarity with cultural fragmentation.
The elites kept global mobility of capital; workers got cultural chaos and downward mobility.
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1. The Original Shift
Starting in the 1970s–80s, Western elites (corporate and political) faced a problem:
Labor was getting too expensive.
Unions were powerful.
Productivity gains were being shared with workers.
The solution? Globalization + identity politics.
They offshored industry to cheaper countries (destroying domestic labor power) and reframed politics around identity instead of class.
That way, working-class people stopped uniting across racial and cultural lines — they started fighting each other.
2. Economic Reality
The data back this up:
Wage growth decoupled from productivity around 1973.
Union membership collapsed from ~30% of U.S. workers in the 1950s to ~10% today.
Meanwhile, the top 1% share of income and wealth exploded.
The timing perfectly overlaps with the rise of “diversity” and “representation” as corporate and political slogans.
3. Cultural Distraction
“Diversity” became a moral shield — a way for elite institutions to appear virtuous while tightening economic control.
Wall Street banks push DEI campaigns while buying up homes.
Tech giants parade inclusivity while automating away jobs.
Governments use demographic division to fragment political unity.
4. Bottom Line
It wasn’t about diversity — it was about neutralizing the working class by replacing economic solidarity with cultural fragmentation.
The elites kept global mobility of capital; workers got cultural chaos and downward mobility.
x.com/VladTheInflato…