I'm saying comfort breeds paranoia, both about the continued persistence of said comfort and your own comfort relative to the comfort of others, which leads to reactionaries getting elected.
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but clearly there's contrary effects, right? Desperation makes people pretty radical and nasty, too. Plus, I think there's an ethical obligation to try to improve material conditions for the many. I just don't expect a political payoff for the people that put it in place, it's quite chaotic.
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