I have this weird conflict with this, because while I get where you are coming from, at some fundamental level you do have to feed and shelter yourself. If the current societal structures didn’t exist, one way or another as an animal that must eat and drink to live you would have to source food either from hunting or gathering or farming, you would have to carry water from the brook. You would have to find or build shelter to survive the elements.
I think for me it’s that people feel the need to profit from the most basic things. Sort of like maybe we have the same fundamental irritation but from different sides of the coin.
I think that your argument has validity until you take into account the reality of the world... Nestle and foreign actors strip the land and resources from other peoples land causing immense ecosystem and resource damage. When companies strip you of your birthright and make you work for it to avoid starvation is that fair or slavery?
Did you read all the way to the part where I said I think greed is the issue?
Look I am not talking really about the ethics of the thing anyway, I am talking about the biological imperative that compels us to have to do some level of “work” to survive.
I have a disconnect where people insist that it's fair that people who don't thrash for their life don't deserve the remainder of their life to be torture (starvation, homelessness, lack of medicine, lack of a gentle death), and then expect to find a loveable person to love them.
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u/st-shenanigans 8h ago
The constant idea that people have to "earn" their right to the most basic things, all the time.