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Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system' by daodedickinson on Saturday November 26, 2016 @07:57PM (#13047045)
Nietszche says to measure one's strength by the number of parasites one can support.
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system' by reflexive on Saturday November 26, 2016 @09:37PM (#13047379)
"It is not impossible to imagine society so conscious of its power that it could allow itself the noblest luxury available to it, – that of letting its malefactors go unpunished. ‘What do I care about my parasites’, it could say, ‘let them live and flourish: I am strong enough for all that!’ . . . Justice, which began by saying ‘Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off ’, ends by turning a blind eye and letting off those unable to pay, – it ends, like every good thing on earth, by sublimating itself. The self-sublimation of justice: we know what a nice name it gives itself – mercy; it remains, of course, the prerogative of the most powerful man, better still, his way of being beyond the law." -- Genealogy of Morals, 2nd Essay, Chapter 10

"In the spot where the strong are weak, where the noble are over tender, there the parasite builds its horrid nest; dwelling in the sick corners of the great man . . . and it is just the highest species that harbors the greatest number of parasites." -- Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part 3, Section 56: "On Old and New Tablets", Number 19

Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system' by platz on Saturday November 26, 2016 @11:57PM (#13047797)
He's talking about Basic Income y'all.
Re:Low social status 'can damage immune system' by RobertoG on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:13AM (#13048544)
Maybe. The funny thing is that, as is always the case, other interpretation it's possible too: only societies with excedents can afford super rich.