On: America's License Raj

[forensic]

People who gained power and money in America's free market closing the door behind them.

It's really sad.

[lukifer → forensic]

This is a frequent pattern in many contexts. A wave of immigrants gets demonized, they integrate over the course of a few generations, and then they turn around and demonize the next wave of immigrants. A school of art or literature survives the scoffing of the old guard, only to become the old guard themselves, et cetera.

[karamazov → lukifer]

Descendents of immigrants are not immigrants.

[alexqgb → forensic]

It's known as "pulling up the ladder behind you".