This goes way, way beyond partisan politics.

“Late stage capitalism” is a term that more and more people are going to become familiar with in the coming years as profit-driven corporations continue to plunder basic necessities like housing and healthcare and put them behind paywalls that fewer and fewer can afford.

The US government has done a good job historically of keeping food prices low enough to prevent mass starvation since that’s a major leading indicator of civil unrest, but the rent is too damn high and it’s only gonna get uglier.