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minus-squareSkyNTP@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoBread and circus. The dial on the circus went up (social media) so the powerful can now steal the bread (goods). It’s all just more of the same.
minus-squareraman_klogius@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoBread and circus means subsidizing the basic needs ie bread so that everyone can afford to live. They’re not even doing that.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoJuvenal objected to anything that would benefit the poor.
Bread and circus. The dial on the circus went up (social media) so the powerful can now steal the bread (goods).
It’s all just more of the same.
Bread and circus means subsidizing the basic needs ie bread so that everyone can afford to live. They’re not even doing that.
Juvenal objected to anything that would benefit the poor.