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Money has existed for a long time, but only recently has the pursuit of profit become preeminent. I'm of the opinion that democracy and universal suffrage creat

• naikrovek 4y ago
  to be clear, I don't care if people are allowed to get rich. that's fine. If you're skilled enough to get rich, then you should be allowed to get rich. I hope that rich people are altruistic, and some are, but most aren't. whatever. what really, really rubs me raw is that we let people fall out of society and into nothingness. livable minimum wage should not even be a discussion. Free physical and mental healthcare should not even be a discussion. affordable housing should not even be a discussion - these are all table stakes for a society that is worthy of existing. No one should be left behind. be as rich as you like; just don't be so greedy that you take someone's ability to live freely away from them because you don't pay them enough, and now they can't afford rent or gas for their car. I guess that makes me either a socialist or someone in favor of very strong welfare policies, but whatever you want to call it, it's the bare minimum that a society should offer its citizens, imo. the whole point of a society or of a nation is that the citizens are taken care of, be it from foreign invader, or domestic threat. those kinds of things are why the collective resources of the people are pooled. that's the whole reason. i see no difference between people dying of poverty and people dying because of bombardment.