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We Don’t Have to Live Like This (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by HallowellNash@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Reposting this from Qasim Rashid, esq. on Mastodon.

(I do know this is discoverable from Mastodon but heck consider it a boost).

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[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Poor people aren't human and therefore don't deserve rights or help

Incorrect. Poor people are replaceable with other poor people and eventually with robots. The fact that poor people aren't doing anything today about any of this means that there will come a day where the 1% makes up around 50% of the still living global population.

When we invented the car, horses didn't go get better jobs we just started having fewer horses.