Social Inequality . It will all be better after the Bird Flu , Mummy says !?
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die offs of significant portions of the population at random do tend to reduce social inequality and open opportunity for the people who survive. Capital is inherited by people who otherwise would have had no means to start a business, or live without debt burden. Opportunities for creative and fulfilling work open up because prior practitioners of those trades drop dead. Working conditions and wages improve for everyone, because labor is more scarce in comparison to capital.
This has happened before, with the 1918 flu, WWI and WWII, and most famously, after 300 years of persistent waves of black death and famine, we had the renaissance.
It is not a method I would personally prefer to address social inequality. Living through plague times is not a fine time, and of course dying in them gets you none of the eventual advantages either. My great aunt buried her husband and 6 children, by herself, in a single grave. They all died in a weekend of the 1918 flu. No one was brave enough to help her, and mortitians and hospitals were overwhelmed. It affected her for the rest of her life. She never remarried, or even dated, again.
Like I said...
Not if everybody is dead or too sick to work.
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bird flu, what a load of crap. I'm not a bird so i think i will be fine. All this worry is over the small possibility that bird flu might some day mutate, why the hell is everyone so worried? nothings going to happen
We survived the bubonic plague, 1918 flu epidemic, AIDS and all the other things that were going to wipe us out. OK, some of us died, but most of us didn't and that which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Mummy doesn't always know best.
If the system collapses then so does law and order and we have the survival of the fittest, which means the strong and violent ones rule and the weak get the crap kicked out of them.
no like i said!!!!
I think it would establish a similar inequality. strongers and those who have enough money to protect themselves will remain and poors, weaks and lower classes will be eradicated. there is a similar inequality in dying as in living
Bird flu? yes most birds do fly!
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