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Re:Unnecessariat by rumcajz on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:44AM (#11768059)
> That's it right there. We just don't need that many people to do all the stuff.

No. But we need that many people to buy the stuff.

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Re:Unnecessariat by david927 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @01:10PM (#11771349)
Do we? I'm not sure we do.

Inequality has increased so much that the bottom 50% don't really own anything, they have no wealth to speak of. Their income, combined, pales to the top 1%. If they stopped buying and renting tomorrow, there was be a hiccup, to be sure, but not more than that. And that's new too.

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