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Pollyanna posted:Why? What could possibly be their reasoning? It's deeply ingrained in our ideas of fairness. It's incredibly easy to convince those who still have work that the safety nets for those unemployable are literal theft. The poorer the work force the easier it is to convince them that what little they have is being taken by the lazy shiftless Other who lives a life of glut on the backs of those who work.
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"That literally can't happen because how will the rich stay rich without people to buy things," doesn't take into account how society has worked like that for plenty of periods of our history. The gilded age, slave economies, hell feudalism, all worked out just great for the powerful rich while the teeming masses all got to die in the streets or under labor conditions that equated to manslaughter.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I agree very strongly that the poor and middle class are in economic trouble. Stuff is getting worse and will get worse and economic inequality is a major issue right now. We already have medicines that are pennies per pill to produce but hundreds of dollars to purchase. There might be decent examples of what you're saying but artificially expensive health care is a real thing and pharmaceutical companies and health care companies response is always "sorry lol we have no choice it's totally required, die if you don't like it."
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Solved by electric shock collars? Okay. Cool. Sounds good man.
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Hold up though are we going to get a sweet neo- grapes of wrath only this time about burger flippers being forced off their flat tops by the banks newfangled machines? I kinda want to read some really deep metaphors bout how a man can't know the beef lest he work it with his hands.
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