• NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Guess why the military has (shitty but more than none) social safety nets like socialized medicine and student loan forgiveness? And why the elite continuously refuse to raise the standard of living of the poor?

    As long as these benefits are just slightly better than poverty, recruiting numbers will stay up.

    • School_Lunch@lemmy.world
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      They don’t raise the standard of living for the poor because they view labor as a commodity. If we made things less difficult for the poor then the price of labor will go up because people wouldn’t be as desperate. Their goal is to make the price of labor as low as possible.