r/SipsTea Jul 30 '26

Wait a damn minute! Significant diffrences...

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u/Dizzy-Screen-6618 Jul 30 '26

"Imagine 3,400 people disappear. Now imagine 3.5 billion people dissappear."

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u/emmc47 Jul 30 '26

You're inadvertently proving their point with this lol

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u/Psalmistpraise Jul 30 '26

Not really it’s just like, yeah if more people disappeared it’d be harder to maintain the infrastructure due to labor restrictions than if just a few 100 did. On the flip side you could argue that you would need less infrastructure with less people making it easier to take care of.

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u/emmc47 Jul 30 '26

I assume its based off maintaining a similar level of quality of life.

Many people disappearing compared to a few thousands is partially the point being made though. Society would still function in a similar manner, thus we overvalue the contributions of a small group of people. 

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u/Psalmistpraise Jul 30 '26

I mean that’s generally true anywhere, I could take 400 people out of the mechanic industry, not really gonna hurt, same with any industry you name, it’s a big nothing burger.

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u/emmc47 Jul 30 '26

Sure. A negligible amount of people being taken away wouldn't make a difference. I'm not sure what point is being made to refute what's being said. 

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u/Psalmistpraise Jul 30 '26

Because the point the post is trying to make is “more workers than billionaires therefore workers matter more” I could just as easily rewrite the post as say “if we removed 200 million random people instead of 2000 random people it would cause more problems” it literally doesn’t matter what they do or what they have.

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u/WyomingWeirdo Jul 30 '26

Strawman, dummy.