We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago
We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago

We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago

I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.
It's nobody's fault, just economic weather. Just bad luck. Nothing to do with corporate capture of the political process whatsoever.
The bad things did not just happen, they were conscious choices or the inevitable consequences of those choices. I'm criticising the framing of this situation by the use of the passive voice in this subhead.
“Capture”. Did no one study the bourgeois revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries?
The capitalist class revolted against the aristocracy and built new systems of government to benefit them. That is the origin of the modern state and capitalism.
The state as we know it has always been just a tool of the capitalist class to control all other classes. That’s what the state is, a tool of class control.
I'm from the UK. We still have a monarch and an aristocracy, as well as a capitalist class. Even worse: they interbreed.
Forgive my ignorance, but which event of the 17th century would you classify as a burgeois revolution? Late 18th century of course, even many during the 19th century, but i just can't remember any such event from the 1600s