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I wouldn’t worry too much about that. The most reactionary people in the US, those who think socialism is communism and horrible labor laws are “freedom,” are too heavily indoctrinated into their own little death cult. They honestly believe there is no country more free than the US and are genuinely fearful of the idea of living anywhere else, they would never move to Europe.
People who live in reality, on the other hand, see how horrible it has become in the US and are looking for a real “land of opportunity,” where you do not have to be a willing slave to capital in order to have the right to the basic necessities of life. They are fully disillusioned with the “American dream,” and so are more open-minded toward socialism, and are more willing to agree that maybe most countries in Europe provide them with real, actual freedom far more that what they have living in the US.
This has been my experience with immigrants from the US, anyways (and, full disclosure, I am an immigrant as well, just not in Europe).
I think most media made in the 1990s and later have fallen into this capitalist black hole of culture.
Our governments have given corporations total control over who is allowed to access what media, and these companies have 100% incentive profit from artificial scarcity over that tiny span of time when people have interest in buying it, while having 0% incentive to preserve that media in archives meant to survive centuries or even mere decades. Most TV shows, film, music, even photos, and especially video games, that were created during our lifetimes will also disappear forever during our lifetimes. It is kind of an unprecedented situation. Never in history has such a large and productive society left behind so little of our culture for future historians to discover about us. Basically we are leaving behind our garbage and pollution, and no sign of our art or culture.
Every so often I hear a news story about some guy discovering a box of old records in his basement for music that had previously been thought lost to history. Every time I hear about that, I have to wonder what, if anything, will the future humans discover about us now that it is all digital and streaming on demand?