So I was going to tweet about like "yay for more public options for services currently provided by corporations, but please make sure they're not racist" but then I countered to myself "but why should we assume corporations would be less racist than the government?"
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BUT THEN I countered myself with: corporations are interested in margins and as a result racism is disincentivized in a way it is not for majoritarian democracy.
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And I just keep coming back to: the economically exploited are always, practically by definition, a majority. The racially oppressed, meanwhile, are minorities. Gotta think seriously about how these interests line up.
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I mean... maybe if you’re talking internationally. Within nations, racial and ethnic minorities, even if you added all of the minority groups together, are generally numerical minorities. Like in America, white people are, what, 65% of people? (And like 70+% of political power?)
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US median household income is like 60k tho, so maybe I’m wrong to assume that people who would really benefit in the immediate term from increased government services/public options are a majority.
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I just think... in the United States, there’s always a meaningful chance of nominally universal social services benefitting whites first and everybody else second. That’s all. That’s not a reason not to do it, just a reason to be cautious.
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I’m not just talking about postal banking, though. Whatever your cool innovative use of government is, there’s a certain kind of risk to entrusting something to the state that exists for black ppl that doesn’t exist for white folks, I think.
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