• sahin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    People are doing it for money, that is why it is so important to help the poor. When people are poor, they can do whatever a rich guy says

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      2 hours ago

      I agree that it’s important to help the poor to make them less susceptible to financial coercion. After all, that is what capitalism does to quantitive measurements of debt, turns it from debt forgiveness to debt peonage. The second part isn’t necessarily true, there are plenty of poor people that don’t do what rich people tell them to, and plenty of rich people who happily do what rich people tell them to do.

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      I agree that it’s important to help the poor to make them less susceptible to financial coercion. After all, that is what capitalism does to quantitive measurements of debt, turns it from debt forgiveness to debt peonage. The second part isn’t necessarily true, there are plenty of poor people that don’t do what rich people tell them to, and plenty of rich people who happily do what rich people tell them to do.