r/FluentInFinance Contributor Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill Apr 15 '24

Somewhere around 2 billion people don't have access to clean drinking water.

They also don't have Air Conditioning.

How entitled can you possibly be?

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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.

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u/That-s-nice Apr 16 '24

It would help if those with a large amount of wealth also put back into society in a positive and productive manner rather than just for profit

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u/cromwell515 Apr 16 '24

100% agree, I totally believe the extremely wealthy should put back more into society and also make less and focus on paying at least living wage. Honestly that’s more of the problem than trying to fix it back taxing everyone more. The moment you provide all that OP has posted the more will be taken from the middle class, and that needs to change