TheSensibleTurk t1_j86fzwc wrote
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Why not just skip the extra steps and utilize an industrial scale liquidation program then? Not like it hasn't been tried before. What do you think? Random lottery? Oldest person or the firstborn of every household? Or some kind of an aptitude test and a certain percentage of those who fail get "let go?" Genetic screening to favor those with the least amount of inheritable disease genes? /s
MonkeyParadiso OP t1_j885tus wrote
No, I don't think that's necessary. Just say in America, we pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps, this is not a welfare state.. Adam Smith.. QEd. And go on with your merry way. We're already doing it and it's scalable :) Starving, disconnected social outcasts don't make for good revolutionaries; I believe it's all already codified in the Rules for Rulers Playbook
TheSensibleTurk t1_j886atf wrote
America very much is a welfare state. You don't even need to be a citizen to qualify for a variety of aid programs. As we saw in the SOTU speech, the otherwise fiscally conservative GOP balks at the prospect of cutting social security or sunsetting other welfare programs.
MonkeyParadiso OP t1_j8csldu wrote
I can't argue with the trillions of $$$ spent on the bailouts of 2008 and corporate subsidies before & since.
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