Reposting this from Qasim Rashid, esq. on Mastodon.
(I do know this is discoverable from Mastodon but heck consider it a boost).
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Only rich people matter.
Poor people aren't human and therefore don't deserve rights or help.
As I grow older and looked more closely at how stuff work in society, I am disappointed, that in many places it does work exactly like this.
sure, in developed countries many "normal" peoel also have many rights, but that'll end quickly if you seriously try to mess with the establishes power structures
I'd argue it's actually "most places" rather than "many". It's not so obvious in day-to-day life but like if I had to take an ambulance tonight, me and my estate would be on the hook for the bill, but a billionaire would not be.
Incorrect. Poor people are replaceable with other poor people and eventually with robots. The fact that poor people aren't doing anything today about any of this means that there will come a day where the 1% makes up around 50% of the still living global population.
When we invented the car, horses didn't go get better jobs we just started having fewer horses.