I grew up low class, and expected my life to be hard - only I didn’t process it as “hard”; it was just how life *was.* I was going to have to spend the rest of my life doing minimum-wage physically-hard labor, and then getting pregnant. That was the plan, but more importantly-
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Maybe not bizarre. Just as I was grateful by paying a lot of attention to the state of past humans, I think a lot of the dissatisfaction with living conditions comes from paying attention to the more fortunate. We have some idea that inequality is *inherently* wrong.
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There’s a good chunk of people who would like to lower the wealth of the very rich even if this benefited nobody else, even if the wealth didn’t get redistributed at all!
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The entitlement! I can’t reconcile my thoughts about what people deserve (freedom from suffering, good health, etc) and the fact that no living being is entitled to many of the things we often think of as rights. They both feel true but also mutually exclusive.
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Eg. someone is low income and has bad financial habits and consequently when they need a vital dental procedure they ask for money. Do they deserve charity? Do they deserve to suffer from a medical condition? Do they deserve the consequences of financial illiteracy? Idk!!!
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If nobody owes us anything, then we don't owe anybody anything either, including respecting their so-called property. But if they expect us to respect it, then those who pretend they own the world totally owe compensation for it.
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Thank you for this. I didn’t know it had a name.
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There is another side Not individual entitlement, but we, as a society deciding to support the basic needs of our population, a form of capitalism where income doesn't start at 0. UBI. It comes not out of resentment resembling class warfare, but from compassion and pragmatism.
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