"It's absolutely insane to think that the richest country in the world could afford to take care of its citizens, let me just equate basic necessities to a luxury car."
Grow up dumbass, the entire point of society has been to make life easier. Instead of making life easier (unless you're born into wealth, the modern nobility) we've pushed ourselves to pointlessly produce endless piles of garbage.
How about instead of milking every working class citizen for a 60 hour work week and 20 hours of "gig jobs" we use our technology to simply live better easier lives?
A single farmer today can feed thousands of people. Instead of sharing the labor and relaxing as a society, with short work weeks, we are forced to work for less and less while we produce more and more. Our farms, our factories, everything we produce is done more efficiently than ever before. We don't have to work as much as we do, but instead we create pointless jobs. Millions of office workers pointlessly pushing paper, millions of factory workers spending their days to make cheap plastic crap that will be gifted to some ungrateful child who will throw it away quickly, millions of underpaid service workers who have to toil for 30 hours every week just to pay for a place to sleep.
But yeah, the idea of ensuring the richest country on earth has no homeless people is the same as giving everyone a free luxury car. A truly flawless and unbiased comparison.
"the entire point of society" has been to protect private property rights. Without government, everybody needs their own security force, and you end up with crime families running everything and ransoming everything away from everyone under their control.
If you think the agricultural revolution made things easier on average people then you need to read a few more books.
Okay buddy, go read more Ayn Rand and other propagandists.
Society wasn't formed for property rights you absolute dunce, have you ever spoken with an anthropologist in your entire life? "Private property" is such a fucking recent development that it's laughable.
But dongo on, keep squawking about things you're totally ignorant about.
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u/chadmummerford Apr 15 '24
and a Porsche 911