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If soceity must have poor for it to function, as you claim. Nobody should feel bad about opressive actions towards poor people, or be concerned about making the

• busterarm 8y ago
  What I'm saying is that somebody will always be 'less-than' in our society because of a base human instinct to feel like 'more-than' our peers. That need is an inevitability. We are a greedy, stupid and spiteful species. Any amount of compassion you have for the downtrodden is not enough (and has never been enough) to overcome this circumstance. Given that there has always been impoverished people, this likely holds true. The best thing that you can do is to engineer systems that spread the misery around a bit and make it a little bit worse for you and a lot better for them.