• ZC3rr0r
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    9 months ago

    Man, that’s even more depressing. I will never understand why (mostly conservative) governments try to keep people down like this. I thought the human experiment was about lifting people up out of poverty and misery, not invent arbitrary systems that keep them there. What does society stand to gain from creating effectively a class of outcasts at the bottom of the social ladder?

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      9 months ago

      Cheap labor to further enrich the upper class.

      If they are merely surviving then they wont have the resources to fight it.

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        9 months ago

        But at some point the upper class depends on more than just cheap labor. You need educated people to innovate, you need a well-paid middle class to support a consumption economy. If everyone is uneducated and destitute the whole house of cards upon which the upper class is able to exist will collapse.

        I just don’t understand how the concept of “a rising tide lifts all boats” is so lost on some policy makers.

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          The issue is youre trying to address this with care and empathy and logic.

          Youll never understand if you dont think like a sociopath, people can be replaced, it’s about having more, future be damned we need to maximize the now, and if people die then they die.

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          But at some point

          The above statement is what they don’t understand. They don’t see more than three months ahead. All of the “eventually” is in a fantasy land that they won’t reach called “next quarter”.