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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoIt’s more of an argument that livelihood of human beings should not depend on employment or productivity.
The system is intentionally kept that way to preserve stratified social hierarchies, because a small ultra-wealthy number of people would rather be aristocrats in a shithole banana dictatorship than middle managers in a post-scarcity communist state (with a higher standard of living).
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
For some people standard of living isn’t absolute, it’s relative. They don’t judge by how comfortable they are or how much they can do with what they have, they judge based on how much better off they are than everyone else. For these people standard of living rising for everyone else would be equivalent to theirs dropping massively. It’s pretty fucked up.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. – Lyndon B. Johnson