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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Keeping the working class healthy and productive is just good business, not equality.

Social democracy is the natural evolution of enlightened self interest from a ruling class, aka, well fed serfs are not only more productive than slaves or starving peasants, they don't put your head in a guillotine.

But they are still serfs. As long as their well being is a privilege and not a right, or the reward of their own labor from means the worker themselves own, the ruling class is still in control, and can hold the threat of revocation above them.