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Exactly. If the political class no longer needs healthy, literate soldiers and workers, it's going to stop paying for them.
by tuatoru 1y ago
Exactly. If the political class no longer needs healthy, literate soldiers and workers, it's going to stop paying for them.
- cool_man_bob 1y agoEven worse, without use for them, they’re a liability. Having a boatload of now useless probably angry is a dangerous scenario. Peasant rebellion are rare, but too happen, particularly when starvation is on the table. So the play will be to boil the frog so to say. Find a way to make it acceptable to get rid of these “extra” people without too much noise. Consider the current rhetoric around homeless people.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]