Cory Doctorow on Nostr: America *does* have a property crime crisis, but it's a crisis of wage-theft, not ...
America *does* have a property crime crisis, but it's a crisis of wage-theft, not shoplifting. Likewise, America has a retirement crisis: it's a crisis of inequality, not intergenerational war.
Social Security has been under assault since its inception, and that's in large part due to a massive blunder on the part of #FDR. #Roosevelt believed that people would be more protective of Social Security if they thought it was funded by their taxes: "we bought it, it's ours."
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