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2. "for people who deserve to have them" -
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 02:21 PM
Feb 2016

This is always the argument from the status quo in this country and for a good reason. For capitalism to work you must accept the idea that some are more deserving than others. I saw it in a right wing article my conservative cousin sent around on Facebook this morning about "free college" being undesirable because then too many people would go to college, thereby rendering it useless. Their capitalism does not work if hierarchy is not revered. So they come up with their ways to decide who is more "deserving" and you will see that in memes every day and twice on Sunday ... everyone judging everyone else on what they are saying, doing, wearing etc. to determine who is the "most worthy". You will see people declare that a lottery winner is "deserving", as in "well at least someone who deserves it won". This is how they keep their whole deck of cards from falling down.

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