The United States The Rise of A Democratic Oligarchy

B. L. Teague
Nov 3 · 6 min read
America Where “child lunch debt” is real employed workers live in and cancer patients beg online for meds so capitalism works
America Where “child lunch debt” is real employed workers live in and cancer patients beg online for meds so capitalism works

Ironically, I saw this Twitter post on Facebook, and it started me thinking about this “late-stage” capitalism that we are living in. For two hundred of its two hundred forty-three years, the United States has thrived under…

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B. L. Teague

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B. L. Teague rediscovered writing while helping family with a medical issue. He writes sci-fi, fantasy, and articles. https://tap.bio/@B.L.Teague

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