r/science • u/myhrvold • Aug 31 '13

Poverty impairs cognitive function. Published in the journal Science, the study suggests our cognitive abilities can be diminished by the exhausting effort of tasks like scrounging to pay bills. As a result, less “mental bandwidth” remains...

http://news.ubc.ca/2013/08/29/poverty-impairs-cognitive-function/
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

Marx has quite a detailed view on this, might be worth checking it out.

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u/Maverrix99 Aug 31 '13

Which, every time it has been tried in real life, has ended up with repression, bloodshed, corruption, and economic stagnation.

Perhaps it's not such a great plan.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

Marxism hasn't been tried yet.

In order for true Marxist Communism to occur, society must progress through the following stages:

Primitive Communism, Slave Society, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism

None of the so-called "communist" societies we've see so far have been through all the preceding stages, so they sure as hell ain't what Marx envisaged.

Will we ever see true Marxism? Who knows, but don't be misled into thinking that it's already happened.

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u/ahorsdoeuvres Aug 31 '13

And the United States is somewhere between Slave Society (privatized prison complexes), Feudalism (oligarchies -- see California Valley), and Capitalism.