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PragmaticPulp

> When did we move to a "do whatever you think you can get away with" model of society?

If you judge society by the worst headlines and stories from social media then it’s going to seem very bad

You have to consider that news and social media only talk about the extreme stories. It’s not representative of normal

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The measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members.

These headlines are showing that the class of "weakest members" has grown to include most of the population.

A representative of "normal" criminals demonatrates they are free to operate with healthy profit margins.

What's normal isn't all that matters though, and the broad consequences of the behavior of the capitalist class are starting to creep quite deeply into what's normal for a lot of middle and lower class people.

Personally, I would like that to be countered much more like how they do things in China. Making an example of some bad apples can be very persuasive.

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