Why Republicans are fighting the basic-income programs many cities and states are adopting: 'Is money a birthright now?' - eviltoast
  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Is money a birthright now?

    No but there are a lot of birthrights which are increasingly only available if you have money.

    The system used to be to give those things away for free to people who can’t afford them - but that’s changing. Just giving money to poor people is far easier.

    • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      there are a lot of birthrights which are increasingly only available if you have money

      This is the logical consequence of the anti-new-deal/anti-desegregation/anti-civil-rights jurisprudence that turns on capital supremacy and property rights trumping the notion that the state has an interest in protecting any other sort of right; it’s something the capital supremacy folks have always wanted but which the desegregation crowd finally joined in on when they thought they could get segregation back by backing capital’s ability to smuggle discrimination under the skirts of its property interests.

      When you look at the White Flight phenomenon and correlate it to the widespread disappearance of public 3rd places, When you notice that state colleges and universities lost funding and started hiking tuition shortly after desegregation meant black and brown people could attend them, it sure looks like Americans were faced with the decision to have desegregated public wealth or no public wealth, they chose the latter