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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They want more people born into poverty and incable of understanding it’s better to wait and pay in cash than use credit and pay interest.

I've seen this theory, effectively built on the notion that Americans are losing access to pools of cheap labor overseas and are attempting to build up a human stockpile of miserables at home. But that runs counter to (a) heavy investment in automation, particularly with regard to the service sector in the belief large numbers of people can be made redundant and (b) federally funded purges of migrant populations and pogroms targeting low income counties and states intended to remove people en mass.

I'll spot you a second theory that's largely rooted in the modern American adoption of eugenics as a theory of human development. The current crop of national leaders is so heavily pilled on their Calvinism-esque understanding of Darwinism that they really do believe some number of children are "born blessed" to succeed. Merely popping out of the womb is enough for Almighty God to do his thing and lead you on the path to success.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

they really do believe some number of children are "born blessed" to succeed

And they even already know what those hypothetical children look like