• LesserAbe@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    You’re right nature is brutal. Do we want our lives to be like that? If a homeless person sees a billionaire should they kill them and take over their mansion?

    No. The point of society is that we can all have better lives working together than by living as animals.

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      1 year ago

      If a homeless person sees a billionaire should they kill them and take over their mansion?

      Honestly, there is probably a good justification to be made that they should. Billionaires hoarding money are a big part of why the homeless exist.

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      1 year ago

      What I’m saying is that we are not the only species that “pay” to exist. Money is the abstraction of work. That first sentence is a joke, it’s ridiculous, it’s infuriating. It’s not an argument to anything.

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        1 year ago

        I’m with you on this. I get where they’re coming from and we are being taken advantage of but the argument being used is lacking in cognative thoroughness, it’s like a surface or second layer thought being mistaken as deep thinking. I think there’s enough automation in the world that we all could be living much freer lives with more time for building connections, learning and creating rather than having to spend all available waking hours repeating soul crushing tasks to simply pay for food, shelter and some basic future security. Trying to push this idea with flawed arguments is dumb because there are so many flawless ones available.