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[dmreedy]

You're exactly right; all I mean to say is, consider that exact point through the lens of how we cull our own weak, and the perceived necessity of it.

[JumpCrisscross → dmreedy]

> consider that exact point through the lens of how we cull our own weak, and the perceived necessity of it

We're comparing dividends to child sacrifice. If that doesn't encapsulate progress, I don't know what does.

[dmreedy → JumpCrisscross]

I am comparing child sacrifice to the externalities of a dividends-driven system. We may not kill our children with knives, but we certainly let them starve.

[JumpCrisscross → dmreedy]

> We may not kill our children with knives, but we certainly let them starve

This is hyperbole. We have hungry kids in America, and that's a tragedy. But they're not dying en masse, and we're certainly not celebrating that as a necessary sacrifice.

[dmreedy → JumpCrisscross]

Neither were the purported child sacrifices dying en masse in Aztec civilization.

We absolutely celebrate the slow death of the poor as a necessary sacrifice in the face of economic growth and dividends. Just not always in the same breath. The fittest grow and the weakest adapt, or don't. Believing that when they don't is a tragedy, is not an effective way of mitigating tragedy, and indeed can serve as an affirming and normalizing act in and of itself.

"That's a tragedy, but that's the way it is"