The fundamental grievances against the Jews (actually “jews,” very rich people) back then are very much alive in the modern day, impacting regular people in exactly the same way.
The “big box store” phenomena has changed the American landscape in the last generation. Walmart, Home Depot, JC Pennys, and a thousand other franchises have transformed Main Street, Wall Street, and every aspect of our way of life.
One Walmart can obliterate dozens of small stores and overnight wipe out a small town’s mercantile center. A dozen small businesses with challenging jobs, friendly service, and name- brand loyalty are crushed by huge corporations that can undersell the competition until they’re driven out of business.
What’s left is a vapid shell of a small town. Minimum wage jobs, run-down apartments and beer-hall morality replaces decent homes, family values and wages you can live on. Business profits don’t go to benefit the community, but to investors a thousand miles or three continents away.
Ditto for larger cities. Shopping centers gut traditional shopping districts. Good full-time jobs become minimum-wage part-time jobs; benefits are history; work satisfaction nil.