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Poverty is unnatural.

It's a symptom of power structures.

To create poverty you have to seperate people from the land. Otherwise people can just grow their own food and medicine.

They created poverty during the industrial revolution, forcing people off the land, removing access to the commons.

In order to force people to move into urban centres to work in factories.

Outside of environmental disasters and times of war poverty really didn't exist before the industrial revolution.

Paying taxes won't solve poverty. The entire economic and political system needs to change.

Capitalism relies on the existence of poverty to function.

You can't exploit poor people if poor people don't exist.

That said I'm glad a tiny portion of the taxes I pay goes towards social programs and infrastructure and things that genuinely benefits humanity.

The Beave 8mo ago

Uh, no.

Capitalism can only function if people accept that private property rights are the de-facto standard.

Gubment social programs are money laundering schemes.

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nami 8mo ago

Kayne said they created poverty during the industrial revolution by denying access to the commons. This is absolutely right. But they did this by demanding taxes paid in currency.

The Beave 8mo ago

They didn't create poverty. They suckered people into working in cities by offering wages and "wonders" in the cities.

And yes, taxation played a very important role in that.

nami 8mo ago

They did. Peasants were self sufficient in their communities and they were creating surplus. Only that they paid taxes by their surplus. But to send them to the cities to stay in small dirty houses to work for many hours and low wages in factories, they demanded currency for the taxes, which the peasants didn't have. Then they stole the commons by privatisation and fences appeared in the land and the peasants became poor. That is the story.