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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you ever wonder how history repeats? A virus could reset and have us repeat history again.  I can see very easily how kids, a lot of kids, can slump through the cracks and end up as child laborers. I can see a huge underclass forming and I can see those that have the means and those kids who are disciplined and resource rich ending up as decision makers in the future. A huge shift is occurring and it is ugly. A lot of families will be out of work, split up, struggling to feed themselves and survive. But, there will be some who hang on and stay in the middle while some still rise and join a ruling class. But, I mostly see child labor to increase money in households (under the table), serving class and ruling class.[/quote]
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It's extreme but yes, the trends of our country is that the poor are getting much poorer, the rich are getting much richer, and the middle class - what's left of it - is grateful for any scraps they can get. The gig economy further amplifies this. And part of this is that there's so much contempt for poor and working class people in this country, politically and socially.

Just look at the whole boundary analysis in MoCo. At the end of the day, it's all about middle and upper class middle income people who are pissed off at the prospect that there might be more poor kids in their schools. The very kids they believe they paid to get away from.  Do you really believe that anyone of these of these "anti-poor" people cares if poor kids work? No, of course not. They'll say something like, "well, that's what you get for having kids you can't afford."

While I don't know about child labor starting back up tomorrow, in the longer term it's absolutely conceivable.  [/quote]

Yes, the rich are getting richer, but no, the poor aren't getting poorer.  Widening wealth inequality does not equal the poor getting poorer.  Everyone's standard of living in this country continues to rise by every measure of consumption.  If there are very poor people in the U.S. who lack the basics, it is because they were recently peasants in a third world country, and even they consider themselves better off.  Why do you continually distort the reality of poverty in the U.S.?  Does it suck to be "relatively" poor? Sure, but it is not what you describe.  The kids are not headed to the coal mines. [/quote]

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