Comment on it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know

1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• tron@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Choosing death by starvation is not a choice. Work or die, slave.

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  • Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sartre would disagree, but then Sartre was a professional philosopher.

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  • Zippy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You think a company should pay you even if you decide not to work? As much as I wish the universe rained down food, housing, and smart phone but the reality is that it cares not of you get a meal at the end of the day.

    I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

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    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are better systems that require you not to die when you dont work.

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      • Zippy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Really? Like other people take out your garbage and bringing you your food and build your house.

        The universe cares less if you starve but we do live in a time when we have to do very little work to survive quite well.

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    • explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Companies are already paying people who decide to not work - their owners.

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      • Zippy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ya ok.

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• variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  sure, just sign up to like 10 credit cards, max them out getting good reliable camping equipment, and take a large loan out for one of those survival vans and flea the country

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  • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    sure, just sign up to like 10 credit cards, max them out getting good reliable camping equipment, and take a large loan out for one of those survival vans and flea the country

    This must be the same thought process of the people I see living in camping vans and tents down the street from me.

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