Religious Liberty?

[bennyboy]

"Downtrodden" is such a demeaning term. I don't think you mean it like that, but I'm not an "untouchable" caste system slumdog. Instead of putting like that, just say "low wage" or "no wage". I don't see you as better than me so please don't see me as less than you. We are both human beings.

That word was used deliberately. I'd say a downtrodden group is one which has been so overwhelmed by the power of another that it no longer has the capacity to resist or to overcome. Let me ask you, and I don't mean this to be insult-- what do you have the capacity to do about your situation, and what have you actually done to change the "climate"? Look around, and tell me who are the Spartacuses who will lead the rebellion?

I don't look down at you at all. My parents were working class, and I started my early adult life on welfare. I was perfectly happy, but because it's SO easy to get student loans in Canada, I went to university, got a degree, and fell into a good-paying job in Korea. But I'm stuck in Korea until I retire, because in Canada I'll be just another guy in line for a 7-11 application.

So I don't say you personally are downtrodden-- but the working or jobless in America as a collective seem to have SO little power to change their situation that one wonders how change will come. Collectively, I'd say the poor are downtrodden.

And again, even without talking about humans, evolution demonstrates why, while inequity will exist, any ecosystem that gets lopsided will become unstable and collapse if nothing is done to counter it.

Humanity's problem, ever since the invention of agriculture, has been that small regions can support large populations. Not only that, not all of the population is required for prood production, etc. Bring on the industrial revolution, and now maybe 10% of positions actually do something important in the sense of genetic fitness. The rest are service industries-- 7/11, Starbucks, restaurants, etc. etc., and leech jobs: entertainment agents, stock brokers, big banks, etc.

This is why the working class have no power-- they aren't really needed. And thanks to improved transportation and communication, as well as better-engineered production facilities, they are getting less and less needed.

So we can blame the corporations that take advantage of imbalances around the world, but that's just temporary. In the end, the problem is that there is no political system that can make us any less a victim of our successs, as a species.