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Re:Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of soc... by coldtea on Saturday July 01, 2017 @04:28AM (#14676046)
You'd be surprised how fast a society can collapse if it's left to wannabe Einsteins and Feynmans and Elon Musks and nobody is there to dig ditches, clean the garbage and work the assembly line.

Or how better a society would be without tons of well paid white collar jobs (advertisers for one).

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Re:Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of soc... by humanrebar on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:30AM (#14676823)
> nobody is there to dig ditches

Nobody shovels horse feces or lights lamps anymore.

Also, these problems (not enough ditch diggers) are solved by just paying people more for that kind of work. Culturally we think that managers up the chain deserve to get paid more and more, but if there's a shortage of people scrubbing toilets, maybe the person with clean fingernails merely cutting paychecks doesn't necessarily warrant a higher market rate.

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Re:Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of soc... by andai on Saturday July 01, 2017 @06:39AM (#14676453)
But how am I supposed to know what to buy!
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Re:Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of soc... by coldtea on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:32AM (#14676633)
It's sarcasm I know, but:

1) Detailed specs by the manufacturer (that have to be valid or get large fines -- e.g. regarding speaker frequency response, or drug side effects, or cosmetics effectiveness, etc.).

2) Reviews by the media

3) Reviews by laymen

4) Word of mouth

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