• stanka@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    How many hours a week working on fundamental science, art, entertainment, medicine, engineering, etc. If you drink from the fountain of modern society, you get the benefits and you share the burden of the costs.

    Life is unfair. There are no free rides, nor should there be.

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      6 months ago

      Life is unfair. There are no free rides, nor should there be.

      And this attitude is exactly why life is unfair. Doesn’t have to be like this, there’s other ways of organizing societies than “fuck you, I got mine” and not just hypothetically; welfare systems are a thing in many countries you know. Or at least were until relatively recently, thanks to people who think like you.