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The social services bogeyman of present day conservatives is no longer the mythical 'welfare queen' but the extensive poverty industry taking their cut as the m

• TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
  In the UK a number of government funded orgs have admitted that they are: 1. Unreasonably expensive 2. A net negative for the social problem they're supposed to solve The underlying problem isn't poverty or lack of education. It's a complete collapse of public moral leadership since the 80s - not in the sexual sense, but in the business sense of "Fuck everyone in the world, because money." Politics and business have always been corrupt. But from the 30s to 60s you could still find good people trying to do good things. Now they're institutionally corrupt, and politics and business - especially finance, which is the de facto government in the US - have become industrial asshole factories. This is barbarism, and it can only lead to more barbarism.