In the words of Eugene Debs: "I will not rise from my class, but with my class."
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Conservative: "if you don't want to be poor, get a better job!" Poor person: "but won't the next person doing this job still be poor? How does that solve poverty?" Conservative: "solve poverty? Are you crazy? Then who would we look down on?"
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The main idea is that there needs to be losers for winners to exist. They defend that idea by comparing life to sports games. This is a game to them and their solution is "get gud".
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The weird thing is, the zero-sum view of wealth is central to mercantilism. The whole reason capitalism is supposed to work is that, through competition driving efficiency and productivity, everyone gets more pie not by getting a bigger piece, but by the pie getting bigger.
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It's more "Then who would we be able to exploit?"
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Pro tip: fatcats love the poor people because there are so many of them, not that there’s that much blood to wring out of any one Until marketing costs go to zero, the con is best played on those who’ve come by $ somehow
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Solve poverty? Then what would we threaten computer programmers and diesel engineers with if they didn't make the evil stuff we want?
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"Of course our policies only help the top 1% but we want everyone to get into the top 1%!" -- The new conservative slogan
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I’m scream crying
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Everyone wants to blame individuals and not actually fix the structural flaws in our capitalist system smh
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