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The US is not just a shining city on the hill; there are huge ghettoes and income disparity is sky-high in a way that is simply unimaginable to Europeans. Recently, these disparities have reached a point where both underclasses and lower-middle-classes feel they are being screwed a bit too much, because productivity gains from automation have gone entirely to capital owners. There is only so much you can tolerate in…
Well, this seems completely logical to me, because freedom was always the central idea to US, for better or for worse. And freedom means nothing if it doesn't include freedom to fail without any safety nets.
The "freedom" to be born poor and go to poor schools is no freedom at all.