Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The very instant the #SocialSecurityAct was passed in 1935, American conservatives ...

The very instant the #SocialSecurityAct was passed in 1935, American conservatives (in both parties) began lobbying to destroy it. After all, a reserve army of forelock-tugging plebs and family retainers won't voluntarily assemble themselves - they need to be goaded into it by the threat of slowly starving to death in their dotage.

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