• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    And every capitalist country slowly removes these benefits until major uprisings.

    We figured out a long time ago that there’s only two things people need in order to keep them happy:
    Bread and Circuses.
    As long as people have food on their table and a source of entertainment you can take everything else away and they’ll be content enough to not revolt.
    But it’s important to not take everything else away at once either, that’s why they chisel away at them until only those two are left.

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      That’s not entirely true.

      Capitalism itself is unsustainable, so as time goes on, the temp rises towards the boiling point. Bread and circuses delay this boiling point, but do not stop it. As long as the temperature continues to rise, so to speak, so too will the boiling point be approached.