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Re:How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive by esotericn on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:09PM (#26137548)
Amusingly, without realising it, your post specifically hits on the reason I'm done with society.

It's individualism for me now. Me, my friends, the neighbours.

Everyone else, figure it out, I'm not your pawn.

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Re:How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive by ctdonath on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:08PM (#26137905)
Hence the American Revolution and subsequent Constitution: enough government to keep the basics together, otherwise do whatever you want. ...and occasional civil wars (small and large) reminding leaders to keep it that way.
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Re:How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive by krapp on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:17PM (#26137966)
>...and occasional civil wars (small and large) reminding leaders to keep it that way.

And yet, oddly enough, countries with regular civil unrest tend not to be bastions of civil liberty, but violent mafia-run hellholes.

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