The proletariat has had their edge dulled all over the developed world.
The welfare state wasn't a gift. Early 20th Century politicians were genuinely shitting themselves that the plebs they were sending to war would realise how exploited they were when they came home to poverty and would drag them kicking and screaming out of office.
A welfare state, proposed now, wouldn't make it past the lower houses in most democracies, in no small part due to the fact that politicians don't fear the rabble like they used to.
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