On the flipside, the harder you squeeze the underclass the harder they work. (And they are kept in a state of safe distraction too)
So there's a balance.
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Brought a tear to my eye, yo.
Yeah, but by doing all that you are oppressing the oppression which the lack of those very things makes so much easier, do you ever think about that??
No, you don't, because you only think of your face and never how the boot on it feels.
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No one in the UK started a drug empire to pay for chemo.
the public housing part is like one bad decision from a workhouse, but otherwise yeah
Basically what the Venus Project wants to do, except no artificial currency
I'm not saying that lizard people control the world and that they actively feed upon our misery and create the conditions that make us the least happy, without breaking us so much that we destroy the system imprisoning us in retribution....
But if there were what would they be doing differently?
Yes. I don't remember the name of the civilization, but there was an entirely "peaceful" society that existed for several hundred years, until Christopher Columbus showed up, and raped and murdered them all.
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You lessen crime by eliminating poverty. That part is correct. The other parts of this meme are more like incidental details what could happen when a society is richer, not the cause.
It's the symptoms tbf