I think I just had a minor, if obvious, revelation.
An evolutionarily produced pro-corporate (read: pro-management, if you prefer) political platform would oppose guaranteed essentials of life (food, housing, and health care) no matter how minimal, because it weakens the corporation’s hold over its employees if the employees can leave the corporate teat and not be totally fucked. How’s that for a cynical conspiracy theory?
It’s not a cynical conspiracy theory until you start drawing parallels between your pro-corporate/management political platform, and the platforms of certain candidates running for President…
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You do realize that this specific theory makes you Republican through and through.
Understanding something is not the same thing as agreeing with it. =)
It’s called subsistence wages. Give them just enough till the next check. George Carlin says poor people will never go away because they are there to scare the shit out of the middle class to keep them showing up at them jobs. Globalization is a race to the bottom. Who is willing to let me fuck them the most is what corporations(money) operate on.