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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For far too many, the default assumption is that people had some sort of advantage to get them where they were. It’s what happens when you try to set the pivot point around things that people can’t control (race, sex, etc) as opposed to the things you can (work ethic, etc).
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Even so, that seems deeply fine to me. Life is unfair - I was told this constantly growing up. I never expectrd my advantages to be the same as others. Do other people get taught to expect this?
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You can't expect everyone to be happy with less just because you're happy with it or it's relatively more than in the past
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No, but my point is the unhappiness is really more due to the narratives they're using than due to any sort of objective injustice.
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You have to remember tho that systems are resistant to change so things will always change more slowly than they should, hence people pushing for the change to happen. It's good to be grateful (big correlator with happiness) but discontent is necessary for progress
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Did you conduct a survey that revealed this “big chunk?” Or just guessing?
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For those reading the comments here—can anyone steel-man this stance? I understand why people desire this (comparative happiness), I just find the perspective foolish and I’m wondering if there’s anything I’m missing.
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Probably the only justifiable reason is that in an open market they can bid up prices for everything from real estate (visible) to political influence (hard to prove, and probably unfounded in any cases but still potentially true). This has negative effects on others.
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I feel like you have a lot of conservative ideas still bouncing around in your brain. Being fed and having a house is not something we should be gracious for - those things are fundamental human rights. It is not entitlement to demand that old people do not live in destitution.
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They’re not fundamental human rights! Historically we had to go build our own house and hunt our own food - we had to work, put in effort, to ‘earn’ those things. Humanity didn’t pop into existence being automatically clothed and fed by god for no effort.
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