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Eliminating the middle class (except for those who directly serve the billionaires) and having a huge industrial reserve army (Marx) that does jobs that cannot

by hrgten 4y ago

Eliminating the middle class (except for those who directly serve the billionaires) and having a huge industrial reserve army (Marx) that does jobs that cannot be automated could work. It works for the super rich in Brazil. This seems to be the trend in "Western" societies, and the middle class enthusiastically votes for those who pursue that agenda.

coldtea 4y ago
>It works for the super rich in Brazil I guess that could be the vision for the US to: a developing country style society, with utral-nice fenced areas for the rich, a supporting 10-20% class, and "skid-row lite" welfare land for the rest, with crumbling infrastructure... And if things end up worse, the rich have already bought houses in New Zealand and elsewhere anyway...