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Exactly who had to get killed for Social Security to be passed?
by closeparen 7y ago
Exactly who had to get killed for Social Security to be passed?
- opportune 7y agoNobody but people did have to get killed for earlier employer-pensions to be passed. And cynically you can view a lot of the pro-labor progress in the US from the great depression through the 50s to be a response to the popularity of communism and socialism abroad
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> the popularity of communism and socialism abroad Which took hold because workers were being abused. Various communist revolutions in history, and all the related violence, can be considered in part blood shed towards improving the conditions for the working class.
- paganel 7y agoNot the OP but I’d mention the 1871 Paris Commune deaths [1]. Bismarck saw the writing on the wall (i.e. take care of the masses or they’ll end up taking all your stuff away and worse) and that’s how the modern welfare State was born. The US Social Security system is in a way just a continuation of Bismarck’s policy applied to an industrialized Western country with a considerable middle class. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune