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[–] Saleh@feddit.org 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

That is false. As a lesson learned from the Great Depression and the Second World war most countries made sure to have good social protection and wealth was relatively well distributed through good paying manufacturing jobs. People had access to opportunities in the form of free or cheap education and simple wealth through owning a house or apartment was accessible to a large portion of society.

Then Neoliberalism came up in the 80s to destroy this.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago

Free education was a tool to move most of the intelligent workers into white collar roles. Neoliberalism was possible because too few intelligent people were left to organize an opposition.

[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You must not be Canadian. We DO have good social protection for anyone who needs it. I worked with street people in a major Canadian city for years. The only way you could go hungry, or without shelter or food was if you willfully CHOSE not to access all the support programs available. We have plenty.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago

In Canada the average person can still buy a house with a low skill manufacturing job?