Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoThen go live in the fucking wood like your caveman ancestors so you can truly live of everything you made yourself.
Society is built on the shoulders of those before them, that they themselves built on the shoulders of those before them.
Stop being a dick and go help someone in your community, you will probably learn a thing or two.
Dra@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
If someone creates something to trade it for goods and services, thats fine
If someone creates something for their own reasons, you have no entitlement to it.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
“Their own reasons”
Homie, the word your looking for is “profit”. And it has nothing to do with helping society. It’s about hoarding wealth.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Found the capitalist.
People create things all the time for their own reasons that have nothing to do with profit. Some people create things for fun. For some, it’s called having a hobby.
Grandmothers knitting mittens, for example.
Dra@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Re read the first line - not what i meant
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Your initial point is that no one deserves what someone else did. My counter point is that since the dawn of humanity, every human has used someone’s else idea or tool to make their life better.
So yeah, you owe it to everyone around you for the lifestyle you have right now.
froop@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think you two might be working with different definitions of deserve