• SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    422·
    8 months ago

    Cruelty is the point. Keep people subservient, keep them worried for their own life and the lives of their loved ones.

    You’re less likely to complain about work requiring 20 hours of unpaid overtime if that means you can’t put food on the table for your family.

    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      8 months ago

      But which people directly involved in any of these things went to the convention or training seminars about cruelty maximization.

      Painting it like that makes it seem deliberate but that’s not what the real problem is, it’s a broken systems that needs to be carefully unpacked and constructed in a way that works - as much as we want to imagine heroics unfortunayely just going in and beating up badguy goons like we’re batman isn’t going to help

      • David_Eight@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 months ago

        Greed and cruelty are inherent traits in some people, no seminar necessary.

        Painting it like that makes it seem deliberate but that’s not what the real problem is

        Yes it is. The system isn’t broken, it functions perfectly to benefit those greedy cruel people.