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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by solidsnack9000 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:50PM (#15165596)
It is actually entirely fine, from the perspective of getting the job done, if someone is a janitor for forty years. There is no reason that being useful should net out to a bad life.
Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by jaggederest on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:16AM (#15165685)
Right. I'm saying there's no opportunity, not that there should be a requirement. I'm saying that we're trapping poor people in a world where they are totally powerless and that is fundamentally evil.
Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by kakarot on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:29PM (#15169245)
As long as there are old, ugly men who want to have sex with young, beautiful women no matter the cost to either party, economic exploitation will remain at the heart of civilization, stunting our growth to the point of deformity.
Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by jaggederest on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:29PM (#15171236)
Interestingly enough I don't think that's actually the warping factor any more. It used to be, certainly, but I think these days we've gone beyond "I would like to own people as chattel property", and all the way to "I want to be the biggest metaphorical genitalia in my particular subregion of the country"
Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by kakarot on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:58AM (#15172644)
I see your point, though it does seem like these are both extensions of the same underlying instinctual desires present in males, mainly the need for dominance (expressed in only a small percentage of the population for evolutionary reasons) and the need for sexual gratification / production of offspring. Being the biggest metaphorical genitalia around will lead to fulfillment of both of those things.