Memes

Well, l don't earn a living since I don't feel pressurised. But I ought to do something worthwhile just to feel that I am alive !!

ITT: guys who probably consider themselves too smart for religion thinking in terms dictated by the church.

"Deserving" and "undeserving* are made up concepts disconnected from any concrete reality, just shards of Christianity preserved in the amber of American civic religion and exported throughout the capitalist-dominated world. If you talk about who "deserves" this or that, you might as well be talking about who's holy and who's a sinner. The truth is, we are just animals who banded together tens of thousands of years ago to help each other survive. Many anthropologists say that society began when we started taking care of those who could no longer contribute as much physically: the old, the sick, the injured. But hey, if you want to be less socially evolved than a bunch of cave-dwelling hunter gatherers, that's your choice. Just don't expect the rest of humanity to entertain your rotten ideas about useless eaters, and don't act surprised when you find yourself put out on the ice.

Earning a living implies that you're not using passive income to mooch off people. It's contrasted to land lords and nobility who were simply entitled to money.

It's crazy how expensive it is to be alive.

You know, when i originally read this, the way i interpreted it was that he was saying that if you need to earn money to live you don't deserve to live.

I much prefer the version that is an indictment of the phrase "earn a living" as implying you don't deserve to live if you aren't "working" in the modern sense of earning money at a modern job vs doing what's necessary to stay alive like all nature's critters.

Evolution makes approving noises

Well since it's literaly us vs the planet (since we seem to be unable to regulate our society's consumption of finite resources), the question is : does the planet exist for us to consume it ?

The answer is no, but we'll still consume it.

Do we deserve to live ? Well outside of society, there is no reason we're deserving it more than any living being. And sometimes I clearly wonder, when some individuals contribution is a big negative legacy for the next ones, and to the planet.

Tbh I do not mean we (humans) do not deserve to live, but I clearly wouldn't want it taken for granted, cause it is not.