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"Economic growth" can exist on a computer screen completely decoupled from the "real world" and independent of a strong middle class. IMHO An economically stro
by wturner 10y ago
"Economic growth" can exist on a computer screen completely decoupled from the "real world" and independent of a strong middle class.
IMHO An economically strong middle class is needed to maintain social order. This mitigates the public from hunting and and killing the rich and keeps the public from displacing their social frustrations on to each other and creating riots. Generally its a better existence for everyone.
- mangeletti 10y agoIncidentally, a strong middle class also keeps the rich from killing the public.
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- aetherson 10y agoHistorically speaking, I don't feel like the basic way that society fails is by "hunting and killing the rich." I mean, you can MAYBE gloss the communist revolutions of the early 20th Century that way. What else?
- snark42 10y agoWhat if you view riches in the form of power instead of just money?