Topic: Imagine if everyone quit their jobs and applied for food stamps.
Anonymous A started this discussion 2 years ago#112,215
What a sad day that’ll be. It’s like the population would’ve said they wanted communism to win. Don’t they see the value in working? There is a sense of pride that comes from working 80 hours a week. I don’t understand the youth of today.
squeegee joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,245,080
@previous (B)
Money. You work for money. That's all it is. People don't understand the value of their time and trade most of their daylight hours and put a lot of effort into what?
Owning all the shit they need to support the rest of their lives waking up to do the hard work they do to aquire the standard of living needed to have that job in the first place?
I agree that people must be productive. We still are and always will be "hunter gatherers," buy now we work and shop instead of running Buffalo off of cliffs. But it's still true that at the end of the day our needs as organisms are served by eating food and having shelter.
Denying people both in order to force them to do hard work and claim it's not worth paying them a higher standard of living than base "not starving to death today" kind of money is kind of fucked.
Taking pride in your output, which is what you mean by understanding hard work... also, just for money.
Like, the barter had already been made. Work = Money.
It's nice that you work your ass off doing hard work and you see that as a virtue. I guess it can be, in a sense, but in reality you're just taking pride in what you do for money.
Like a shameless ho. But see, that's fine for them. They know they're getting fucked. For money. At least they understand what the work is before getting overly excited at the word "hard."
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 2 years ago, 17 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,245,084
@1,245,080 (squeegee)
We’re not hunter and gathers. Plus nobody other than anthropologists know how actual hunter/gather societies function. This mindset is how women still get beat because they’re seen as physically weaker. Yet the female hunters in Africa and the new insights to prehistoric peoples tell us that hunting was for anyone who knew how to work a spear. You probably still associate “hunter” with “men” and “gather” with “women,” huh? You fucking marketing victim.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 6 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,245,258
@OP
Imagine if you lost literally everything you owned in a natural disaster and your government did literally nothing to help you. Of course, that could never happen in a wealthy Christian nation like the United States.
squeegee double-posted this 2 years ago, 19 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,245,277
And don't blame me for your lack of critical thinking (at best) or for your inability to acknowledge understanding (at worst) in order to APPEAR to BELIEVE that you're right as if incredulous, vague assertions -if muttered dismissively enough is just as good as the arrogance that comes from... knowing ANYTHING about what they're talking about. Ever.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 2 years ago, 2 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,245,293
@1,245,264 (G)
Glad you accept that no one cares if you die, Berto. Maybe if you end up homeless again, you should just drink Evercear until your liver tells you to fuck off.
Anonymous H replied with this 2 years ago, 31 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,245,403
@1,245,400 (A)
It doesn't matter. Do you really think that all robots will gain sentience at the exact moment that artificial general intelligence comes to be? Better throw out all your appliances, computers and phones then. After all, you believe they will one day become sentient