• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    10 hours ago

    I mean, yeah, being required to do something or else you’ll be starving and homeless is pretty fucked up and worthy of a day being ruined.

      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        35 minutes ago

        But at no point have we ever been so detached from the means of production. Growing food has a different feeling than sitting in an office.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      3 hours ago

      Its not fucked up at all. You’ll (the average person not someone with a disability preventing them from working) will always need to do something. Even welfare systems require you to do something or be kicked off.

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        2 hours ago

        plenty of countries have welfare systems that don’t require anything to use, the incredibly small amount of “parasites” that will abuse these systems are essentially a rounding error.

        most people actually don’t mind working jobs, if it atleast feels like it’s their own choice to work it

        as a whole the US spends more time/resources trying to punish poor people than it would cost just to allow some poor people to abuse the system