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it’s not just to make exploitation easier—that’s part of it. But also, the success of Social Security disproves so many conservative talking points. It’s the government providing welfare or universal benefits to people, and it works. It makes people’s lives better and reduces poverty
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Wall Street—that’s why they hate it. They like people scrambling and not being able to have enough time and comfort to think about, “Why do these guys have all the money?” That’s true, but they’re also just straight up greedy. They look at it and think, “We should be the only ones who offer products like that, and tack on a 35% fee.”
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If a house is on fire, and one side is saying to use water to put it out, and the other side is saying use jet fuel, the right answer is not “half water, half jet fuel.” The media has such an annoying tendency—it’s written into their corporate identities. “This is big money.” But that’s the story they love telling, like somehow taking half bad and half good is better than just good.