Earning something and deserving it are two entirely different things. Institutions are often built on deliberately conflating the two.
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the concept of desert is so abused it'll be in therapy for the next three lifetimes
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A broader observation of the same nature is that tension-producing social institutions are fundamentally based on claiming some social construct (how one feels before / during / after X) is an inalienable human right (implying others are responsible for that of an individual).



