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Resource scarcity as a child leads to lifelong prioritization of short term needs over long term rewards.
They don't just want more people. They want more people born into poverty and incable of understanding it's better to wait and pay in cash than use credit and pay interest.
The wealthy plan decades ahead. They want the rest of us planning pay check to pay check.
It's not that they're just evil and want us to suffer in the moment. There's logical reasons they're doing evil shit.
Because the wealthy can afford to plan decades ahead
If we want to win the class war we need to understand this stuff and stop focusing on one battle at a time
I've seen this theory, effectively built on the notion that Americans are losing access to pools of cheap labor overseas and are attempting to build up a human stockpile of miserables at home. But that runs counter to (a) heavy investment in automation, particularly with regard to the service sector in the belief large numbers of people can be made redundant and (b) federally funded purges of migrant populations and pogroms targeting low income counties and states intended to remove people en mass.
I'll spot you a second theory that's largely rooted in the modern American adoption of eugenics as a theory of human development. The current crop of national leaders is so heavily pilled on their Calvinism-esque understanding of Darwinism that they really do believe some number of children are "born blessed" to succeed. Merely popping out of the womb is enough for Almighty God to do his thing and lead you on the path to success.
And they even already know what those hypothetical children look like