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By design. A desperate population is the easiest to control.
~Signed: someone who grew up in a financially-abusive house. https://twitter.com/dnjaga1/status/1320424651441557504
~Signed: someone who grew up in a financially-abusive house. https://twitter.com/dnjaga1/status/1320424651441557504
As I said: it's by design. https://twitter.com/ib2_real/status/1320437595734638592?s=20
Now, we can argue whether it's actually cheaper (this varies according to context). But when your population has its basic needs met, there will be fewer crimes of desperation (pickpocketing, people stealing food etc).
And then how will you justify police/military spending?
And then how will you justify police/military spending?
You need an enemy. The more daunting your enemy looks, the more guns, vests, uniforms, tanks, surveillance equipment, etc, you can buy. And since it won't end well if you declare war on another country, you declare war on your own.
The bulk of your population is young. You're scared of what might happen if they band together and vote you the fuck out. So you make sure there are only 2 steady jobs for those not in the elite:
-Crime, and
-Guarding rich peoples' stuff.
-Crime, and
-Guarding rich peoples' stuff.
You want sections of your population to be so marginalized they choose allegiance to something else. Whether it's a separatist movement, a drug gang or a Caliphate. Take your pick.
Then you can get better weapons to shoot them with.
Then you can get better weapons to shoot them with.
But you won't address the reason so many young people in those communities turn to terrorism/crime. So it keeps happening. They act out: you shoot them. And anyone who criticizes you for shooting them must be a sympathizer, who also deserves to be shot.
Meanwhile: in comes famine, drought, lack of education, no hospitals, no medicine, no infrastructure. And you tend to shoot the people who might have helped their regions overcome these challenges, if they had your support.
So they become more marginalized. More violent.
So they become more marginalized. More violent.
Meanwhile, everyone who isn't in either aforementioned profession (crime, or guarding rich peoples' stuff) has to contend with being the grass on which both groups graze.
And you're a strongman. You'll protect them. Do they want to live in a country ran by criminals?
And you're a strongman. You'll protect them. Do they want to live in a country ran by criminals?
If they want to survive, if they want to remain in the precarious position of earning a living (and paying taxes, which are then stolen), they must do everything you say.
