• MajorHavoc
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    7 days ago

    they want poor who can work to stay alive and live as their obedient slaves that serve them.

    Minor clarification.

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      Exactly, they do want people to die that are of no use to them, as there are limited resources on Earth and anyone not serving them is essentially reducing their size of the share.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        limited resources on Earth

        That is also what we are all led to believe. If wealth were equally distributed to everyone, everywhere … there would be more than enough food, water and shelter for every living being on the planet. It’s not that the resources are running out, it has more to do with how our economy, wealth and control is distributed. The resources and wealth are held by a few people while everyone else goes without.

        Which is the basis of the quote … “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

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          Of course, this is absolutely true right now, but population is growing. What do you think happens with perfectly equal resource distribution but unlimited population growth?

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            Education and well balanced people.

            Education is well known to cause a population to tend to have fewer children. As people become more educated, more capable and more well cared for … they tend to not want to have as many children. Conversely, when people are poorer and less educated, they tend to survive by having more children … it’s our survival instinct because not all the children may survive but enough offspring survive long enough to have lots more children again.

            So if you have a planet full of well educated and well off people everywhere, they will have less children and everyone that is alive will all work towards making things better for everyone else. It’s probably a fantasy or a magical utopia that we can never achieve … but we can hope that we can move in that direction.

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      Those who can’t work are just as important. They’re made to suffer as an example to make sure those who can work never stop working.