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There are some hugely perverse incentives in western society where you aren't guaranteed shelter, food, and medicine while the world is overflowing with extrava
by zanny 8y ago
There are some hugely perverse incentives in western society where you aren't guaranteed shelter, food, and medicine while the world is overflowing with extravagance and wealth.
This isn't making your poor comfortable, its about human decency. The whole point of society is that the collective be worth the effort for the many, but for many that participation just means exploitation and desolation for the endless profit of capitalists they will never even see in person but whose influence keeps them in endless toil with an empty, unfulfilled life.