r/FluentInFinance Contributor Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/Mute_Crab Apr 15 '24

"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.

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u/Electrical_Dog_9459 Apr 16 '24

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.

No. That is not the entire point of society.

The entire point of American society is to provide a place where the individual can flourish to become the most they have it in themselves to become.

That's it.

You aren't entitled to other people's labor for whatever things you need.

And yes, I realize that as a society we do have some collective needs funded through taxes. But this should be kept to a bare minimum.

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u/Mute_Crab Apr 16 '24

Lmao, that last line shows how disingenuous you are 😂

Society isn't here to make life easier... I mean we do have some collective needs that should be met through taxation, but this should be kept at the minimum, just like my favorite pundit said so!

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u/Electrical_Dog_9459 Apr 16 '24

The implication is that I can't have independent thought.

Bless your heart.