Working despite adversity is fetishised, often to an absurd degree, triumph over hardship praised without any critique of hardship's source.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
This logic is roughly akin to Person A breaking Person B's leg, then persuading others to ignoring A's culpability while egging B to walk.
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The myth of social bootstrapping, aka "no handouts" (always amorphously defined by circumstance anyway) basically = "work through the pain."
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"I shouldn't have to pay for social services! They're for freeloaders!" mate you are literally REFUSING to pay for a necessary thing so like
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People who won't pay for healthcare, libraries, hospitals, welfare etc but who want to live in a functional society? THEY are freeloaders.
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They are literally demanding a state of affairs that costs money to maintain but refusing to pay for it because they miss the correlation.
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You want an educated populace? That's money for schools, libraries, trades. Want a healthy populace? That's money for healthcare, hospitals.
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Want safe neighbourhoods and low crime? That's money for social services, WELL-TRAINED law enforcement, public facilities, transportation.
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If you try to predicate all those outcomes on "but people should just WORK HARDER" it physically cannot happen. The conditions aren't there.
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In these times, we would do well to remember the words stamped into the gates of the concentration camp at Dachau: "Work will set you free."
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Beware all political slogans that espouse the same logic, & especially when the inference is that only a degraded few need work to be free.
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