it’s worth noting that there are lot of barriers to income people can use to pay for things - transportation, childcare, disability, training, previous incarceration, access to appropriate work all come to mind.
To build off this, Our current economic system pushes a psychology that if you dont produce some value to some GDP, then you have no right to eat. Who cares if you need nutrition to be any good to anyone else.
Working to keep your head above ever increasing rent, food prices, along with everything else.
Well there’s a reason the song goes “Bread and Roses” We need the means to sustain ourselves but the mind like the body needs to be fed, too. It’s not enough to just get by: EVERYONE deserves the finer things in life, yes, everyone.
And until that requirement is met, yes I feel the obligation, as I recognize the irony, to bite the hand that feeds, by the system that affords me the luxury, until everyone has everything they need.
Anything short of that is just talk by class traitors or those employing them.
Dont go ceding the game just because theyve moved the overton window so far right. We are only ever reclaiming that which could never be rightly privitazed and extracted from justly in the first place, I say.
For one, I don’t have big appetites: give me a small cozy place to live, groceries, and the ability to receive further education and medicine at no cost.
I am a productive member of society, I’m a young scientist, and I’m not driven by money (if I would be, I wouldn’t choose public science lol). I just want financial security and ease of mind that comes with not worrying about what I’m gonna eat tomorrow.
Fuck yeah I want everything for free! Is that feasible? No, obviously not. Are there things we can make publicly funded that would benefit everyone long term? Yes of course.
I don’t think “a LOT” is a notable enough percentage to justify all caps
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it’s worth noting that there are lot of barriers to income people can use to pay for things - transportation, childcare, disability, training, previous incarceration, access to appropriate work all come to mind.
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To build off this, Our current economic system pushes a psychology that if you dont produce some value to some GDP, then you have no right to eat. Who cares if you need nutrition to be any good to anyone else.
Working to keep your head above ever increasing rent, food prices, along with everything else.
Well there’s a reason the song goes “Bread and Roses” We need the means to sustain ourselves but the mind like the body needs to be fed, too. It’s not enough to just get by: EVERYONE deserves the finer things in life, yes, everyone.
And until that requirement is met, yes I feel the obligation, as I recognize the irony, to bite the hand that feeds, by the system that affords me the luxury, until everyone has everything they need.
Anything short of that is just talk by class traitors or those employing them.
Dont go ceding the game just because theyve moved the overton window so far right. We are only ever reclaiming that which could never be rightly privitazed and extracted from justly in the first place, I say.
Sounds great though, doesn’t it?
For one, I don’t have big appetites: give me a small cozy place to live, groceries, and the ability to receive further education and medicine at no cost.
I am a productive member of society, I’m a young scientist, and I’m not driven by money (if I would be, I wouldn’t choose public science lol). I just want financial security and ease of mind that comes with not worrying about what I’m gonna eat tomorrow.
Is that truly too much to ask?
Fuck yeah I want everything for free! Is that feasible? No, obviously not. Are there things we can make publicly funded that would benefit everyone long term? Yes of course.
I don’t think “a LOT” is a notable enough percentage to justify all caps
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