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In reply to the discussion: What will happen if(when?) the birthrate drops dramatically? [View all]Aristus
(70,062 posts)The idle rich live in mortal terror of a labor deficit. Right now, we have a labor surplus; more people than jobs. This is the means by which the parasitic, consuming classes keep wages and benefits low for the people who do the actual work. And if a worker or groups of workers resist, the parasites can just fire them, and hire the people waiting outside the door for a job.
If there is a labor deficit, as there was after the Black Plague, then there are more jobs than people to do them, and the idle rich have to offer higher wage and better benefits in order to entice people to do the jobs the rich are too lazy to do their own damned selves.
And, as pointed out above, the white supremacists in this country are terrified of being the minority. They know how rotten they've been to people in the minority in the past, and of course, even today. They can dish it out, but they can't take it.
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