1/ A sympathetic reading: Many people are not calibrated to how much of wealth is from value creation and how much is from value extraction. Also, some live in highly corrupt states where most wealth is from value extraction and/or corruption.
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2/ Similarly, some presume that all involved in the social safety net are leeching freeloaders. And in some corners of the world, they may indeed be.
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3/ In the end, "Corporate Greed" and "Welfare Queens" are the exact same thing: the generalization of a small, nasty subset of behaviors to anyone who looks remotely similar. It's sad when people hate everyone because of the actions of an unrelated few.
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In other words, it's garden-variety bigotry, ignorance and hatred. Sure.
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Apologies. I see that she is a Princeton Professor with a large platform. That makes it mainlining poison into the nation's veins.
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Like I said. I could do a whole tweetstorm taking the statement apart word by word, but it would miss the point: this isn't a statement of fact, it's religious chanting, intended to induce a trance state.
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"Now this is the law of the capital, as old and as true as the sky..."
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that ... would also explain why yelling that Marx didn't think this has zero effect despite being perfectly true. faith never did require actually reading the scripture.
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The best part is the guy in the responses blaming capitalism for the extreme poverty he sees in the US... tweeting from Los Angeles.
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