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Interesting reading. Shows how people believe things told to them in spite of the facts which are freely available.
There is very little social mobility. The rich stay rich. The poor have everything stacked against them, family, diet, housing, schooling.
In a society which does not mind a child inheriting billions, or a man who writes a computer program earning again billions. Why should that society not keep people in food and housing?
The guy who invents "facebook" billions, the guy who does medical research - a normal wage.
If the problem is that 20% of the population is lazy, how do you explain periods of full employment. like during and after WW2 ? Did the lazy forget to be lazy?
In the Rhonda Valley in Wales is it an outbreak of laziness that caused the high unemployment? or the fact that they shut down the coal mines?
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