MrAlanCooperMar 19

The Epstein Class believes that providing citizens with enough money to live a decent life while not requiring them to work will spoil them and turn them into useless marshmallows with toxic ideas, anti-social behaviors, and will actively tear at the social fabric.

Many experiments in Universal Basic Income have proven this to NOT be the case.

However, empirically, it turns out that giving someone 50 billion dollars causes them to cease making useful contributions to society, turns them into useless marshmallows with toxic ideas, anti-social behaviors, and they actively tear at the social fabric.

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@mralancooper its rational for them to proceed this way, their predecessors learned in the 1960s that if workers have security and repose they dare to ask for things they would never felt entitled to in a state of misery and degradation. Tragically, this plan has been very successful. Every year of degrading conditions and political betrayal habituated the public to learned helplessness, and spurred an aimless resentment, the latter becoming a raw material to further their designs
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@mralancooper it has been depressing over the course of the 10s (and the last few years) to consistently see dissidents be chided as childish and immature for demanding basic things our grandparents and our parents had. Even just asking that things *not get worse* was portrayed as unrealistic and delusional. I think a lot about the occupy movement in 2011 and the way it was snuffed out by the political establishment in the wake of the 2008 crisis, it was a terrible harbinger for things to come