• @[email protected]
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    -1910 months ago

    You are free to live you life. Are there armed guards preventing you entering the forest and living off birds you kill with your hands and sleeping on pine needles? Be my guest.

    Or do you mean “we should be free to have farmers work for my food, and have 20 people come build me a house, all for free”?

    • PugJesusOPM
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      Are there armed guards preventing you entering the forest and living off birds you kill with your hands and sleeping on pine needles?

      Well, yes, actually. Not without reason, but literally, yes. Typically some combination of public property, private property, and wildlife/safety regulations stop that from being a long-term solution. Depending on how far away from society you go, you can escape scrutiny for a time, but you’ll never be safe from the threat of the cops rolling in and destroying whatever you have and dragging you out for trespassing or violating public land ordinances.

        • @[email protected]
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          410 months ago

          The people in this picture worked too, then the system collapsed due to rampant financial speculation and they were made destitute. Along with hundreds and thousands of others. People literally starved to death during this time.

          If your response to the idea that perhaps things could be better for the people who work and contribute labour for your stuff is “well if you don’t like it, go live in the wilderness”, you suck.

          • @[email protected]
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            -610 months ago

            Go farming. Grow your own food. Build your own house. Vote for a government that provides social services. Forage. Barter. Get a different job.

            There’s like a thousand solutions.

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              Sorry, just go farming and build your own house? Do you think those things don’t have significant upfront costs that would be a barrier to people in precarious conditions?

              This is not a serious argument, it’s completely detached from the actual barriers people face in reality

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                Really, those things have cost? Seriously? No way!

                Next thing you’re going to tell me is that the people who already incurred in those costs (farmers, construction workers) want to earn money to cover those costs and their labor!!

                What a scandal!

                • @jpreston2005
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                  310 months ago

                  you seem to lack critical thinking. This type of anecdotal “wisdom” you’ve adopted merely allows you to dismiss the true nuances of undertaking anything you’ve commented. You know more often than not, things are more complicated than a casual glance would suggest.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -110 months ago

                    Yes, it’s super complicated “people expect compensation for labor”. It’s PhD stuff.

    • @x4740N
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      210 months ago

      Don’t care

      It’s obvious you’re a right winger

      • @[email protected]
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        -210 months ago

        Lol, even a fast peruse of my comment history will show you that even for European standards I’m quite progressive.

        Which might be why I demand fair compensation for hard working laborers, no matter what online edgelords think they are entitled to.