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> "Both lines of thinking assert that the lower classes cannot control themselves, so they deserve exactly what they have and nothing more. No need, then, for h
by jeffreyrogers 9y ago
> "Both lines of thinking assert that the lower classes cannot control themselves, so they deserve exactly what they have and nothing more. No need, then, for higher wages or subsidized health care. After all, the poor will just waste it on cigarettes and cheeseburgers."
Unfortunately for the author's argument, very few people at SoulCycle hold this view.
- mark212 9y agoI had the same response, though not quite as witty. Don't know who this author is talking to but the folks I know who engage in this exercise-as-morality are quite firmly on the Left. The politicians opposing higher wages and subsidized health care did quite well among the smoking, cheeseburger-eating poor. But Jacobin likes to pretend that anyone that even thought of voting for Hilary in the last election is basically a fascist sellout.