• freebee@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, the spirit of your comment i agree with, but not the letter.

      Nothing should be completely free, because nothing is free. Water needs processing, electricity needs a grid, sewage needs treatment, etc.

      Basic things should be affordable for all: housing, water, electricity, internet, food etc.

      But “free” creates incentives to be careless with resources. Which is counterproductive to making sure they are available for all at affordable prices.

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome. “I can’t vote against what the rich people want, because what if I become rich some day?” Completely missing that they, in the course of their entire lives, will not make as much as what most of the rich assholes of the world make in a day/hour/minute/second.

    EAT THE RICH.

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        3 months ago

        For-profit media sells what people will buy. Hollywood movies tend to put women in revealing outfits (men too really). A guy wearing a drab, comfortable t-shirt draws much less attention. Though Don’t Look Up was a fantastic exception:-). Still, all else being equal, the barriers are higher for the right booth than the left bc the inherent interest factor is lesser.

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    3 months ago

    at this point in time… All hunger, all deprivation, all poverty

    Is because SOMEONE wants it so. Not because circumstances make it so

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    3 months ago

    Hard to believe people work sixty hours. Got a decent living over here in Europe and am currently reducing from 40 to 35, just because.

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    3 months ago

    Always remember the dishwasher and why it was invented. Then apply that to EVERYTHING man-made. It’s alway to save time, for someone who is not you.

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          3 months ago

          But the farmer is not eating all the crops them self. And it doesn’t have to be one farmer doing all the work.

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          14 days ago

          have you seen modern farming? these days there are tractors that can be set to follow a route and the driver just has to monitor things.

          yeah it’s not completely automated, but it’s extremely disingenuous to imply that we’re closer to traditional farming than we are to full automation.

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    3 months ago

    Because inequality creates incentive. The bigger the difference between the bulk of the society and the top percentages of earners the more people are willing to risk to reach the top. That’s why there are more successful startups in the US than in Scandinavia.

    It’s a global rat race and the US is “winning”.