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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I think we all agree on that, the question is how to help them do that. Pithy but useless answer: replace the Protestant Work Ethic. Specifically, shatter the virtue-yields-money-yields-virtue loop that prevents people from wrapping their heads around the notion that capital/the rich does not actually deserve the absurd returns it gets under the current system. The system is failing so many people, but the kind of liberal apathy we are talking about can't make the logical leap that it's those people who are being failed, not the other way around. We can feed everyone, clothe everyone, tend to the illnesses of everyone, with the money we have Right Now. We have it, no joke. But we don't think of ourselves as a wealthy society, we think of ourselves as a society with wealthy people because we've been fed the notion for hundreds of years that wealth is made by rugged individuals and belongs to them and them alone. Liberal apathy is a shell that people grow around themselves because they know that we can and should help the suffering but can't reconcile that with the lie that we can't afford to. We need to make people as angry about that as they were (quite rightfully) about civil rights, immigrant rights, and gay marriage. Their humanity is the way in; the message starts with "We can afford these things, anyone who tells you otherwise is loving robbing you of your dignity and birthright to live in a caring society."
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