• Slotos@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    why does our economic system require people to be poor

    Let me guess, you’re from US. Or from Canada, and are stuck in US narrative.

    Your economic system (or rather society) has never ditched slavery, which is nowadays masquerading as a penal system. Poor people are easy to enslave.

    • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I think you’re missing how I’m rhetorically posing that question to the preceding comment and not sincerely wondering myself…