spappletrap

>they're members of their foreign racial/national group with the ambitions/motivations to leave.

And resources and community connections... even if they come here with little or no money, they had to have something to leave. It's expensive as hell to move to a new city without a job lined up, let alone a new country.

"Teach them cause and effect" ... yep, that's pretty much what everyone's been trying to do since the 60's. The problem is that nobody will touch the core issues of consciousness because it's inherently political. It requires confronting some of the biggest taboos in science: anthropomorphizing animals in biology, discussing consciousness seriously in physics, and looking at how economics and information interact with a skeptical eye toward the standard economic narrative.

Has it though? The roman empire was a command economy, but there are obvious vestiges of the empire in our society still

It's almost like our social bonds are being broken in the same way chemical bonds get broken when we digest food. Like our capitalist society is a higher-order organism that is extracting energy from our societal bonds.