Did you not go to school when you were younger? You benefited from those schools at some point in your life.
I love the "but I don't use that so I shouldn't pay for it" argument. Like come on, my dude, that's what a society is about. If you don't want to live in society, move to Siberia.
I'm tired of people acting like they shouldn't contribute to the betterment of society as a whole because their contribution doesn't benefit them personally, or benefits others they dislike.
I always take it to a literal extreme when these sorts of arguments come up.
"I'm happy paying towards unemployment benefits because everybody needs to eat. Even if its going to drug addicts spending it on crack, because they need thst crack and theyre going to get it. I'd rather them be in the dole office with their hands out than sneaking around my house in the night taking my xbox."
I vote for school tax levys. I don't (and probably will never) have kids.
And it absolutely does benefit them personally, just in ways they're too dumb to see.
I am 70 and tired of paying for wars, corporate welfare, and bailing out bankers and oil companies.
EDIT: And genocide.
Sorry, but Bari Weiss is running a story on 60 minutes about a rich black woman using food stamps to buy a fancy car. So now we're cutting the Give Surplus Food to Starving People program in half and giving twice it's value to a company run out of Hondorus by Peter Thiel's Ket dealer called QueefCoin.
The best corporate propaganda money can buy.
"Why should I, a man who religiously drives and has no children or grandchildren, pay for these things?"
Because it benefits you and society at large in other ways. It is in society's best interests that people are educated so they can do much more in society than they would've otherwise. It is in society's best interests to have robust, comprehensive public transport, because that way the roads won't be clogged up, stopping you from driving. It benefits you that the nurses at your care home can read what meds they're giving you and can do maths. It benefits you if people can get to their destinations without driving otherwise you would not be able to park at your destination. Your meals on wheels not getting stuck in traffic? The ambulance being able to get to you and get you to the hospital on time? The people around you being able to have the skills to operate in not just the work place and the world? All of that benefits you.
Thinking like this is how we ended up in the shit we're in worldwide.
Yep.
Just cause you don't actively use it every day, doesnt mean you don't actively benefit from it every day.
People are so myopically fucking ignorant...
Funny username
I have met people who think like that on the regular and I just want them to go move to an American Car Suburb and see how they like it.
How that person move around at 90 without public transit? Hope is not driving.
Cycling? My granddad did at 90. 4 years later he still does, but on 3 wheels
Not sure, but the two arguments aren't even equal.
"I don't want to pay for something I'll never receive" vs. "I don't want to pay for something I already received"
Neither one is a good attitude, but one seems more selfish than the other. Now, if the other person said "well I was well off and went to private school so we never used it" at least it would be more similar, still greedy
If it has a blue check on a Nazi platform, it might be a Nazi.
They also give out blue checks for verified accounts and frequently if you don’t even ask for it. Plus, lots of them are just idiots, not Nazis.
At 40, I’m tired
Fun fact, the guy who posted that (Caleb Hammer) is a YouTuber that allegedly hired actors to pretend to be broke people making bad financial decisions to get money off selling you a budgeting course when real people weren't shocking enough for the audience, and also allegedly pressured a guy into doing OnlyFans after touching him inappropriately. Fun! /s
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beware-austin-based-creator-caleb-hammer-victor-vulcano-bjzaf
Jesus that’s on Linked in
Linked in is basically facebook for weirdo "80 hour workweeks should be a minimum, thats how I show my dedication!" types.
The allegations don't entirely surprise me, either. I find it hard to believe people the kind of people desperate enough to come on his show, would act like that without an incentive of being encouraged, or just being wholesale fake actors.
Wouldnt surprise me if the accusations of being a right wing troll prove accurate, with how they keep seemingly trying to get people who look like what right wingers think liberals are, just to scream at them and denegrate them while they act, according to script, flippantly.
Jesus Christ, it's not Jason bourne
I've seen a bunch of the videos. Ones from a year ago or longer were much better, lately he's been a dick.
Common Caleb L.
I love paying for schools, because I hate being surrounded by dumb people.
Jokes on you, I pay for schools and am still surrounded by dumb people!
How unbearable would it be if they received no education, I can't imagine.
opinion: individualism is a plague and the generational war is a distraction
Yep, the real war is the class war and the billionaires are winning.
If you're 90 and that selfish, you shouldn't have made it to 90.
Overgrown toddler. (The actor going on the dumb rant, not you)
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