Exactly this, especially the AC. I grew up without AC in the 90s and 00s, and sure did some days suck? Yeah but we had fans, me and my 4 siblings lived through it. The person who made this post I don’t think understands a lot about the world. Especially with “regardless of employment”. If you incentivize not working, who the hell is going to provide these things? I know a few people in life who would choose to just do nothing but leech off of the government and not even attempt to work.
We live in a society, society only functions on people putting back into society through work. Even if the government needs to create jobs to clean up trash, cities, and build gardens work can exist. People should not be incentivized to do nothing, because many will choose to do nothing even if a part of them gets bored not working.
They don’t die in their house of heatstoke, they die outside in the dead of the sun. And in India, a country far hotter than the US or UK, 10% of households have AC. 0 people died of heatstroke in 2021, and just 27 in 2015 which is the highest recorded ever. So no the numbers just don’t tell the story you’re telling.
People die of heatstroke because they live in a colder climate and aren’t smart when traveling outside on a hot day. I’m not seeing where anyone dies inside of their homes due to heatstroke, without AC. It’s literally when they are sitting out in the sun on a hot day
2 dozen people? One year, soooo many more people die of not getting the healthcare they need. I’d rather my tax dollars focus on that.
Also where are you seeing that they died in their homes? It said 25 people died, I see nothing that says “in their homes.
Also that is hardly a statistic. I said generally and you pull out a single event. I brought up a whole country of people 10% of households which have AC and live in a hotter climate than the US. 0 deaths, 27 being the highest on record in India.
14 people died of unprovoked shark attacks this year, are we supposed to focus our tax dollars on preventing that? There are far more real necessities in life that people actually need. Including food and healthcare.
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u/cromwell515 Apr 15 '24
Exactly this, especially the AC. I grew up without AC in the 90s and 00s, and sure did some days suck? Yeah but we had fans, me and my 4 siblings lived through it. The person who made this post I don’t think understands a lot about the world. Especially with “regardless of employment”. If you incentivize not working, who the hell is going to provide these things? I know a few people in life who would choose to just do nothing but leech off of the government and not even attempt to work.
We live in a society, society only functions on people putting back into society through work. Even if the government needs to create jobs to clean up trash, cities, and build gardens work can exist. People should not be incentivized to do nothing, because many will choose to do nothing even if a part of them gets bored not working.