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."
Same is true for people who really really don’t want to work. I’d rather they live in social housing, get some small social assistance check and spend their time in front of the tv drinking beers, than roam the streets and bothering people by begging or worse committing crimes because they can’t hold a job down and refuse all help.
Some people just can’t be convinced to better their lives and these people need to be managed and jail is not the answer. And often these people do turn around and start accepting help.
And it absolutely does benefit them personally, just in ways they're too dumb to see.
I vote for school tax levys. I don't (and probably will never) have kids.
Did you not go to school when you were younger? You benefited from those schools at some point in your life.
The doctors giving you end of life care also went to school. Unless you are ok with us changing that?
Yup. No matter which angle you want to approach it from, bitching about funding schools is not a good look.
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.
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.
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.
Amen, brother. No war but the class war.
opinion: individualism is a plague and the generational war is a distraction
people should be able to have their own sense of choice and identity.
people should also realise that together we can make it so that everyone can reach their full potential, making society better.
pay your fucking taxes
There can be more than one issue, of which both of these are a problem.
The boomers and the rediculously wealthy have the same mindset: fuck you, I've got mine
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.
The underfunding or undercutting of education is a big part of why we're in the current situation
Yup, stupid people vote Republican. Their war on education will only end when their party is dead, burned, buried, and pissed on.
"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...
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit"
So many people don’t understand why we live in a society, and apparently have no capacity for empathy.
They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.
They won’t, because though they like to complain, they’re pussies who can’t be bothered to think for 5 minutes that the fact they can read and write their snarky bullshit is because they benefitted from free education, else they’d be illiterate.
But gods forbid they pay back the overwhelming amount they benefit from society in a small way. It’s fucking infuriating.
As someone who works on private wells and water systems, its always baffling to me when someone with a "hunt camp" more luxurious than any house I'll ever afford is complaining about the cost of our services. Like dude your "camp" is 2000 sqft and 200 kms from the nearest city. Yea its gonna cost a bit to make your well water clean, clear, and safe to drink while running on a solar system.
They'll even start to question my wage and why the bill costs so much (as if i have any say) completely tone death to the struggles of people outside their class. They imply if i was paid less their bill would be much cheaper despite me barely making enough to own my own tiny home and my wages really aren't a major cost on the bill.
if you guys don't have much competition, you should start treating those customers fairly
and by fairly I mean treat them how they treat you
You are not free to do any of those things as the land is owned and you would be squatting. These people are removed by force. There is no choice except engage with society as there are no other options.
God I hate boomers
The rich and powerful are making us hate each other to distract us of the real problems of the world
Yes, but boomers are a chunk of the reason that the rich and powerful continue to be able to grasp and maintain power.
If boomers ceased to exist tomorrow and elections were held, I think there'd be a good swing left. Not a total swing, but substantial.
The machine would stop having elections at that point, or just come up with more convolutions to try and undermine the sentiments within the movement of any emerging “public consciousness”.
The revolution Must Not be Televised (or on the internet, lol)
Good thing it won’t be too long until it’s over.
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.
I attended a very rural school district and in 7th grade a bunch of retired people got their friends to elect them to the school board and at their first meeting they closed my school.
But hey, it's OK. They're all dead now.
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.
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
At 40, I’m tired
We sure do live in a society... why are boomers/silentgen like this?
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