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Tronno
10 months ago
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The horrors of Pompeii
That might be reading into it too much. I'm pretty sure it's just a joke that capitalism is cancer. As in, "late-stage cancer".
nerdponx
10 months ago
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Synonymous terms have been used in leftist/Marxist literature for a long time, that's always where I assumed it came from:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-ca...
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