When you’re so poor that you don’t know what you’re going to eat tomorrow, or if the money of your wage may run out until the end of the month, will you care much about that?
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cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
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Sounds about right. You’re quoting a right wing rag from a 20 year policy analyst with no practical experience.
You want to know what poor people can’t afford? Extinction.
traveler01@lemmy.world 1 year ago
cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
You are conflating socialism’s view of money, with food. A maximalist socialism would contend money is not for food, give away the food use the money for the stuff you don’t NEED.
To some degree I agree with that. Any stance that socialism would do anything other than prioritize the well meaning of people over capital is either a compromise (and some of the Nordic models would be an example) or a deliberate straw man, just like the author is building here.
The idea that you can’t ‘afford’ to feed the world and ideas just like it is the entire reason there’s a socialism in the first place.
psud@lemmy.world 1 year ago
(money is also for luxury food)
Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 year ago
Thank you for pointing this out before I bothered reading that long-ass propaganda piece
Ignore this shite and move on, folks
cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I figured I’d do the diligence since I have to put up with enough Cato for other projects. I didn’t know the authors name, so I had a good laugh at the 3 lines on his linkedin.