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The minute we collectively stopped stronger folks than you and me from beating us up and taking our stuff, we left the realm of "how nature works". In the west
by Frondo 10y ago
The minute we collectively stopped stronger folks than you and me from beating us up and taking our stuff, we left the realm of "how nature works".
In the west, we're all living in rich enough countries that no one should need superhuman will or fire or tenacity simply to live a decent life. No one willing to work 40 hours a week should be denied access to the medical care system, face food or housing insecurity, etc.
The fact that that is the situation for many speaks to problems in the way we've arranged society (which is about as far from "how nature works" as possible), not some innate rightness in the world.
- douche 10y ago> No one willing to work 40 hours a week Quite often that's the problem. Particularly if we've built up a palace of perverse incentives that make it a better strategy to coast along on the byzantine web of social services that is effectively an inefficient Basic Income for people at the bottom of the pile, than it is to get a shitty job and make just enough money to lose all those benefits. I can't really blame people that realize that that's the situation they face, though.