The more I think about it the more I think @AlexandraErin is right
It's not that it's impossible to keep on feeding people and keep "the economy" going while everyone is out of work
It's that they're terrified of ever admitting that it IS possible
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And they trick people into thinking this is just how "the economy" works, that it's the same division of labor that ancient tribes used to cooperate to take down wooly mammoths or whatever It's nonsense
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The fact is very little would change if you went and got your own food from the kitchen like a big boy and we just took your money and gave it to the underclass of service workers for "doing nothing" The "value they created" for you was just you being petulant
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What they're terrified of is the government realizing this is life or death and forcing the coffers of the wealthy open to keep the population alive for three months *without* doing all the bullshit jobs and people realizing "Hey, this actually does work"
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"Why don't we do this all the time? Why don't we make it so everyone has a constant level of 'base pay' and tips really are just an extra reward for good service? Why don't we treat service work like what it is - doing you a *favor*, not performing your God ordained function"
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They'd really rather risk death than risk that change in attitude, to them their position in society as the generous dispensers of the right to survive in return for haircuts and shoeshines and immediately refilling the bread every time is their whole identity
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I mean yeah, but for example, takeout isn't the same experience as going out for a night to a restaurant or bar. There is an actual social loss going on here. I don't think, in our heart of hearts, most of us feel THAT differently from the protesters, it's we know it's futile.
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We are, many of us, raging & bitterly resenting the loss of our basic social freedoms and normal routine, and many folks who posture about how they don't & these desires are selfish are just hypocritical. We just aren't protesting abt it except online rage at the authorities.
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and minimal access to health care...
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don't dismiss lonely people that go to a restaurant for chit-chat and food.
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everyone should be paid a representative cost of living wage to live in the community where they work. does not matter what job they have.
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