Indeed. The future will be better. For some. The objective is making sure that you're on the "some" side of the fence where possible.
There is some appeal in some countries' approach of attempting to lift all boats / create a large middle class... the dog-eat-dog model is a little tiresome, and I hate tripping over beggars on my way to the office!
It doesn't work though. I've been trying to do this for nigh on 25 years now and I've given up at this point. Some people just don't want to be lifted. And that's fine. We just need to factor it in. Universal Basic Income is a good answer but that tends to annoy the folk who will need to pay for it. And then this dissolves into the real problem with society which is that most people wouldn't piss on their neighbour if they were on fire...
We should start fixing that first.
I know what you mean, and we have to accept that by the definition of IQ, half the population has to be below average.
However, in the countries where some form of social democracy works, the people you talk about aren't given an easy choice of letting themselves slip into the crapper... to receive anything from the state, you get a case worker assigned that essentially manages your life and you will be required to see the doctor, dentist, and other professional help in an attempt to give you the best chance of getting out of your own way. So, there is a price to pay to make it work... the "losers" lose the liberty to be losers, unless they really work hard at it and finance it themselves!
Yeah... that's all the same ages old arguments trotted out over & over again to justify not doing ANYTHING. Meanwhile the 0.1% keep breaking the system... EVERY system... to KEEP THEMSELVES in that 0.1% at the cost of everyone else.
We're at the point now where the system is so fucked-up it rewards corporations for NOT employing people. THAT is the first paradigm that has to shift; a complete 180 to the point where the system penalizes them for that behavior. After we actually get people working again so they can feed themselves, there will be wherewithal to consider those fundamental social aspects.
People don't have a lot of concern for their neighbor when their entire existence is defined by a borked system that deliberately pits their attention against an endless stream of "do-or-die" choices; you just don't have the luxury of caring for your brother when all your resources are tied up in basic survival.
And those 0.1% are the folks who created that borked system, to their own benefit, and they obviously are NOT going to fix it out of the goodness of their hearts. We will have to FORCE them to do so, just like the LAST TIME they did this about a century ago.
Authoritarianism is the antithesis of Democracy. Look for those who promote it; they are inevitably the right hand of those who are stealing the most from EVERYBODY.
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