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In reply to the discussion: Why Poor People Stay Poor [View all]daredtowork
(3,732 posts)In that most will be mired in an absurd social services system where they do reams of paperwork at deadlines that only suit the bureaucracy, have to go through the hassle of appealing half the time because of that bureaucracy's overload errors. and get screwed in the end anyway...and the other half of society gets employment processing the paperwork and/or monitoring, psychologically "behaviorially modifying", or "fraud investigating" the first half!!!
This is the tragedy of a rapidly technologizing society. Wealth is supposed to be redistributed through employment. But when people are rendered useless by technology, they don't get the utopia of leisure and spiritual development with technology doing all the work and providing for their needs. Instead, all the wealth accumulates with the 1%, and there is no mechanism for redistribution because people aren't really "needed". Work is only provided at the discretion of people with wealth and power. It is a gift from above that can be taken away if people even give their new masters a sour look.
So when people lose their jobs, and lose their place in society, they don't rebel - they submit to the system of bogus paper chases and endless employment workshops and struggle to avoid homelessness while they are monitored and investigated by the part of society that is still permitted to have a livelihood, full health benefits, and to put something toward a pension/retirement fund. As long as the people caught "in the system" don't rebel, there is always hope they will be permitted to join the "paper processing, monitoring, and investigating" classes.