• ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    But at some point the upper class depends on more than just cheap labor. You need educated people to innovate, you need a well-paid middle class to support a consumption economy. If everyone is uneducated and destitute the whole house of cards upon which the upper class is able to exist will collapse.

    I just don’t understand how the concept of “a rising tide lifts all boats” is so lost on some policy makers.

    • ITypeWithMyDick@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The issue is youre trying to address this with care and empathy and logic.

      Youll never understand if you dont think like a sociopath, people can be replaced, it’s about having more, future be damned we need to maximize the now, and if people die then they die.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      But at some point

      The above statement is what they don’t understand. They don’t see more than three months ahead. All of the “eventually” is in a fantasy land that they won’t reach called “next quarter”.