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Prosperity. It's more painful and fear-inducing to lose something you have, so the more you have the stronger the allure of laws that are sold as reducing your
by ballenf 5y ago
Prosperity.
It's more painful and fear-inducing to lose something you have, so the more you have the stronger the allure of laws that are sold as reducing your risk of loss.
- toyg 5y agoCoupled with rising inequality and pressure on the working class. The distance between rich and poor is now so big, both in economic and cultural terms, that anyone with even a modicum of wealth is obsessed with "not becoming one of Them", and will accept any rule as long as "it keeps Them in their place".