Black or White, Left or Right, There Is a Group Called the Poor
The author argues that racial and political conflict is rooted in poverty, and discusses inequality, welfare, and basic human needs.
【Black or White, Left or Right, There Is a Group Called "the Poor"】Easy Investing Chat, CLEC Investment Channel. Post date: November 24, 2020
Today's racial confrontation and left-right confrontation are actually confrontations caused by poverty.
Look at the people who come out to march and protest. Most are poor people, whether left or right, white, Black, or people of color. Yet these protests are not carried out in the name of poverty. They are carried out in the name of left and right, white supremacy, discrimination against Black people, Black lives matter, and white lives matter. Wealthy people are all at home protecting their homes.
Why do these poor people go into the streets not to protest wealth inequality, but to fight over left and right and skin color? I personally believe, and this is only my personal reasoning as the only reasonable explanation, that the upper class and politicians unintentionally mislead poor people at the bottom to shift their target. Because they cannot solve the wealth gap caused by capitalism, and because all financial and monetary policies have intensified this gap, politicians cannot solve capitalism's dilemma. Politicians lead poor people away from targeting the rich and mislead them toward immigrants, racial discrimination, left, and right, making the poor fight the poor, in order to avoid digging up the real evil consequences ultimately caused by capitalism and the wealth gap.
I think this kind of protest will continue and gradually intensify. One possible solution, not the only one, is a social welfare system with unconditional minimum income and unconditional education. Everyone can receive the most basic living expenses and the most basic right to housing. In other words, the most basic food, clothing, housing, and transportation are completely free. This is the most basic human right as a person; people cannot be allowed to live worse than the family dog.
As for where the money will come from, when the rich become richer and richer, taxing the rich and taxing assets is the inevitable direction. If the rich are unwilling to pay the most basic costs, the protection fee, they will face unbearable losses in the future: proletarian revolution.
Of course, simply increasing social welfare is absolutely not a cure-all, but it may be one possible comprehensive solution.
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