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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
But if 99% of people are living in dirt hovels and are spending 90% of their waking time working for the basics such as food and shelter this tends to put a damper on the given society's creativity and technical advancement. Then the society in question begins to stagnate. Eventually even the 1% will suffer as things such as cures for their diseases are never realized because the people who might have discovered them are now working on a farm or sweatshop instead of where their natural talents are.
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Since none of that is even close to being true, I don't see what that has to do with anything. Your scenario could be applied to pretty much any situation even.
A lot of people work jobs that totally do not match their talents for all sorts of reasons. Location, benefits, family duties. Babies are aborted every day, one could be the next Isaac Newton. Similar argument. Not to mention, a lot of the greatest inventors and scientists did work shit jobs and hours like that and still came out on top.
I'm not arguing that people should remain poor, it's against the best interests of the country and it's simply wrong. But your argument is pretty thin.