Increasingly, the basis for Western democracy (if we can still call it that) seems to be, "You have a right to work, not a right to live."
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Replying to @fozmeadows
The idea that most people can't work effectively, to their full potential or at all while struggling to live is not accounted for.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
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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Replying to @fozmeadows
The myth of social bootstrapping, aka "no handouts" (always amorphously defined by circumstance anyway) basically = "work through the pain."
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Replying to @fozmeadows
"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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Replying to @fozmeadows
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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Replying to @HiddenPinky
No: I mean wealthy taxpayers who spit fire at the idea of "their" taxes being used to help people who need assistance.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
So the people who actually pay for stuff are the freeloaders in your view? Because they have some objections?
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People who expect society to function healthily but who don't want to pay for everything that verfiably *makes* it function.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
That would be the bottom-earning 60%, who don't pay for everything that makes it function.
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