feels like USA has never really evolved past having a underclass (slavery, indentured, financially desperate, illegal workers) and there are *so many policies* that seem designed to maintain that desperation. we gotta find another way
almost; automation / industrialization enters into it, and, ok, increase the wages of the lower class, don’t put the in deprivation, more productivity per capita might arise. purchasing power in housing medical care and education has been inflated to like 1/10th since 70’s
