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applegrove
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applegrove's Journal
January 4, 2014
Is it scarcity that the libertarianists/right wingers are trying to preserve with their
right wing agenda? Think of Paul Ryan wanting to voucherize medicare. Because at some point there will be drugs to completely fight ageing. And then people will never die if they have things like medicare and other social programs. If the research is done by private universities and only doled out to people through private insurance then only the rich will live forever and the middle class and poor will die sufficiently to make room for all the rich to live forever, forever. Is this the "why" that explains their actions to date? And the why in that they don't care about the environment? Because only the rich would then be able to always fend off environmental catastrophe and poison? Abnormally long life will be scarce?
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