Originally Posted by
MattTheHat
One’s acceptance of those theories often correlates nicely with one’s politics.
You know the rat park experiment?
Give folks what they need, and they behave a whole lot better. Maslov.
It suits a few to systematically deprive a large subset of the populace, and to convince the rest that sort of misfortune is somehow deserved, while obscene degrees of privilege are somehow earned.
The US is rife with this, and spreads this trickle- down mentality worldwide like a cancer.