I think people should have what they wish on others.
We could choose to work on the ego control, tribalism and start using healthy policies, look at things that help the common good like infrastructure and schools that we pay for with taxes, then include healthcare and paid leave as common goods that reduce poverty and most importantly improves lives. Less stress from artificial scarcity. These healthy policies help improve life satisfaction, less stress and improve productivity, and spread the risk and cost the most, and use proven results in other places and states that expanded Medicare people did better.
If everyone has their needs met, who will they be better than? They need a hierarchy. They’re already poor and powerless, so they have to lord it over the destitute.
Popper’s paradox of intolerance is something that is never discussed by online leftists. Why is that? How can you respect people who will put you in an oven the moment they gain power? Don’t you see how you’re literally enabling them by pretending to hold a moral high ground that doesn’t exist?
The internet trained us to think that anything remotely hostile or “hateful” is an indictment on a person’s soul. That if you don’t accept everyone unconditionally you must be a monster. But my immune system keeps me alive by literally eradicating foreign pathogens that pretend to be benign. If my immune system didn’t do that, then not only I but humanity itself would not exist. So what gives?
I interpret the post relating to underprivileged folks still requiring government assistance regardless of how many welfare cheats there are.
Right. So everyone in this thread is seeing whatever the fuck they want to see in the comic, which is vague on purpose because god forbid OP actually expresses their political views like an adult, and we’re all talking over each other while they sit back without elaborating on what the fuck they meant. And we think we’re so smart, too, while discussing engagement bait drawn by someone with the artistic skills of a literal toddler.
Wow
What’s the balance between what the government should provide towards our basic needs vs what the individual is responsible for?
Don’t be pedantic. Doing nothing while people are dying on the street means the system needs to change. Tweak it until until (ideally) no one is dying on the street. That doesn’t mean we wipe everyone’s ass for them and it doesn’t mean we won’t have homeless people (I used to know a dude that wanted to be homeless and proudly proclaimed himself a “street person” to anyone who asked). It means everyone has their basic needs met. Food, water, a safe place to sleep, education, and a wage that covers the basic costs of living. If someone needs help we help them because we are a community and communities take care of each other.
Our PROBLEM is the current system is catered to the top tier of the ultra rich and “pretends” any scraps thrown our way are us being irresponsible leaches. But we pay a ungodly percentage of our income in taxes (not just income taxs, but every sale, every regressive tax) to a government that gives almost nothing back while calling us freeloaders and then we get bogged down in conversations about “individual responsibility.” We can have conversations about individual responsibilities after congress works full time, the pentagon can pass an audit, military generals don’t retire and go to work for defence contractors, and billionaires get their goddamn fingers out of the white house (and it wasn’t just under trump they had their fingers in the government pie).
This is not a call to violence in any way but unfortunately probably won’t happen until the right kind of people start dying on the streets. Look at how shook up CEOs got over one healthcare parasite CEO getting what he got. Look at how the chud white nationalist conservatives got shook up over one gummy racist rat “paying the cost of freedom” or however he put it when talking about children being gunned down schools.
Things will have to get a lot worse before they get better.
Perhaps you’ve heard the statement “the devil is in the details”.
All basic needs should be provided for. Anything beyond basic needs should be your own responsibility. So food, shelter, health and wellbeing, education, security, defense, and access to infrastructure should all be provided as a part of the public good.
And before you say it, people will still want more than just their basic needs met, so almost all will still find work to do. They just no longer have to accept the jobs that require people to be threatened with death to take them.
I don’t think they should. Live by the sword and all that.
