So strange how many people resist someone telling them that they deserve more, particularly given that the money is from taxes that they themselves paid. People have been brainwashed to expect - even to want, in some perverse way - less rather than more from their government.

Sep 29, 2020 · 2:24 AM UTC

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Modern Monetary Theory is the remedy for that. It leads to the conclusion that if people are forced to go without their basic needs being met, then it's a failure of community/economic planning.
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And, for example, they seem to believe we somehow don't deserve single payer universal health care, while the citizens of Canada, England, Spain, Germany, France, scandinavian countries do deserve it. So sad and depressing.
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This modern day practice of hyper-normalising psychological and physical suffering is reminiscent of self-flagellation which was the practice of the desert religions . . . . .
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This is in direct proportion to how people feel about themselves. If you experience a lifetime of being told, or believing, you're worthless, you're in disbelief if you hear you deserve *anything*. A major root of anger in the world is people believing they're worthless.
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Yes and .... from Yale Professor #TimSnyder stAted:
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Replying to @marwilliamson @BluXanadu
Well said.
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decades of fearmongering against social-democratic & socialist policies
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I'd rather just keep more of my money I worked for and pour less of it into the bottomless, inefficient pit that is the government.
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Once you show ppl they’ve been scammed, they can get super distressed because they’re too afraid to challenge any authority. So they will reject you and the info as fake, irrelevant, or having questionable motives to escape dealing w t stress of the problem.
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I'd love more but I want to know where it's coming from. Were in crazy amounts of debt to China, we keep printing money like it's our job and people keep promising stuff that seems too good to be true. I call it healthy skepticism lol
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