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Only if the people getting the pennies demanded them in exchange for not cutting internet cables. Countries in the early 20th Century that did not have social p
by vmh1928 6y ago
Only if the people getting the pennies demanded them in exchange for not cutting internet cables. Countries in the early 20th Century that did not have social programs, Russia, Germany after WW1, found large masses of discontented and starving people were fertile ground for populist messages. If those people had been well fed history might have taken a different course.
- hkai 6y agoSomehow rich elites are fertile grounds for socialist message no less than the discontented starving people.
- igorkraw 6y agoWell, not rich elites, mainly educated but not rich elites. For some reason, being on the winning side of capitalism seems to inoculate people against ideas of socioeconomic justice