[a study paper is shown, with some of the text legible]
STUDY RESULTS
GIVING POOR PEOPLE MONEY REDUCES CRIME MORE THAN GIVING COPS THAT SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY
CONCLUSION
If you want to reduce crime, take care of your community’s primary needs instead of funding cops so much

[an orange character in a suit has stamped a paper labeled MORE POLICE FUNDING BILL, and is grinning]
Heh, you think we don’t know?

https://thebad.website/comic/scientific_policing

  • yucandu@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    If you’re born into money, you have two options:

    Either you believe you don’t truly deserve all this money, and you live with the existential angst and dread this causes you until you slowly kill yourself through drugs and alcohol, or you give it all away and live as a poor nomad.

    OR you believe you truly deserve all that money. And since you know you didn’t actually DO anything to get it, it must be because you were BORN better than everyone else. Genetically superior.

    Which do you think most people choose?

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 days ago

      And if you’re not born into money it’s:

      1. You can be rich if you just apply yourself.

      or

      1. You are trapped in a system that will keep you in poverty your entire life no matter what you do.

      Which message would you choose?

      Edit. And if you grew up rich and wanted to protect the system that put you in charge of a media company, which message would you choose to propagate?

      • yucandu@lemmy.world
        2·
        19 hours ago

        I think the most important messages the rich can choose to propagate to protect themselves are messages that help prevent the working class from uniting against them.