I think that discussions of racism prejudice are sometimes done a disservice by not sufficiently

underlying the economic upside for those people who adopt these theories and promulgate them

in their own self-interest. Whether or not it's true, I happen to, I have my own feelings,

but whether or not you, you know, there's a lot of

resistance, shall we say, in part because of Elon Musk and our contemporary political environment

to the idea that racism persists or that it's being framed as this random evil and the spirits of

children that leftists want to project onto white people and that's inherently all these things.

But I think it's really important to underscores this extent to which there is an elite class, a wealthy affluent class at a time

in history where you're having the end of the colonial period. You have the Haitian revolution.

You have the American Civil War. You have radical shifts in geopolitics that are imperiling the dominant few, the people who have

been historically dominant. And as a consequence, and simultaneously, this is the other part,

I really was fascinating wanted to pick up on. The other part is that historically, you write,

there was no need to provide a moral rationale for poverty because there was scarcity. So to the

extent that there were poor people, it was framed as, well, that's just the way the world is

there isn't enough to go around. And there's no real threat to the majority. When you get to a point

where because of technological advances and science and all of the like, there is less scarcity. You can provide food, health care, whatever it is, electricity,

plumbing, clothes to the general population. And there is a refusal to do so, aka poverty

is a policy choice. You suddenly have to then justify your choice not to do so

by making claims about the bottom trash of our society. Right. Exactly. Yeah. The notion of the

undeserving poor and this underscoring of who merited public investments and in fact,

who merited rights was one of the kind of fundamental arguments of eugenesis,

was something that they started to introduce and experiment with and really tried to popularize

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