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Originally Posted by spence
How much of the dependency class is indirect vs direct?
-spence
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It depends, as you well know being, as JohnR once said, the queen of it, on context. What is indirect in one context can be direct in another. Or, as you quipped in another thread: "I'm not sure I understand the question. There are many variables here . . ."
I'm not sure in what context your question is asked, but in the context of the dependency class being a result of the ruling class's policies, I would say that most of the dependency is direct rather than indirect. The current ruling class, being a direct descendent of progressive politics in America, has as its mission a State in which the citizens have no inalienable rights, but has only those rights granted by government. As such, all enterprises are allowed by government and are obligated to follow its mandates in an ever-expanding minutia of regulations. The same growth of intrusion in the functions of personal life applies.
The transformation of an American society which was based mostly on self-government and self-reliance in a fluid "class," where one could rise and fall on merit and effort, to a more rigid structure of "classes" which require government assistance to maintain has created the dependency class. Before the transformation, the great body of American society did not depend on a central government for its welfare. The "great" societies formed by federal progressive governments have steadily changed self-reliance to government dependence and made the ability to achieve wealth or a "better" life economically more difficult, and made a "class" structure more difficult to escape, and has specifically made the dependency class not only a beneficiary of government, but a supplicant.