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Thomas Jefferson owned over 600 slaves. You can't be comfortable in life without people beneath you making your life comfortable.
Imo if comfort was binary then that might be true. Comfort is a spectrum though and comfort is dynamic. People sacrifice some comfort to be more comfortable later. That sacrifice might make others more comfortable now or may make things more comfortable in the future. People have to consent to these sacrifices and be adequately compensated. Anything else is exploitation of some degree
Hard disagree.
There's more than enough for all of us to be comfortable...
The problem is a couple thousand people have hoarded the majority of the planets resources.
The problem is the billionaires, not people getting fucked less than the people getting fucked the most
Take care of the billionaires, then after redistributing their wealth, we'll see what else needs to be done. But literally everyone else will be more amenable then than they are now.
That's just common sense, keep as many people on your side till the biggest issue is handled.
No matter how you distribute income, it is never going to be comfortable to pick pineapples, slaughter animals, weld metal, repair sewers, or arrest criminals. Comfort is simply not in the job description. Someone has to lose. We can't all be software developers and artists.
What?!
Plenty of people would be willing to contribute some labor towards society...
You legitimately think if everyone's needs were met past the limits of basic and I to the "comfortable" range, absolutely no one would want to be productive?
That is just...
The most depressing view on humanity I've heard in a long time, but I guess Republicans and neoliberals have been making that argument against welfare for decades now. Just weird to see on lemmy
This response is weird. It’s like you ignored what I wrote completely and only wanted to read some completely different stereotypical point.
We're not having a conversation are we? You're just waiting for me to finish so you can say the next thing...
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