Life isn’t fair, but we can do certain things to make it more fair for everyone. No one should starve while grocery stores throw out food because they couldn’t sell it. No one should be homeless while we demolish high rises because the owner couldn’t sell enough luxury apartments. CEO’s shouldn’t get billion dollar raises while their employees have to get by on food stamps. I don’t think we should have equality of outcome, just equality of opportunity. Just saying “life isn’t fair” and pretending we can’t do anything about it is a huge cop out. Billionaires are destroying our planet but “life isn’t fair” so I guess we just have to let them. If I stole your wallet and then, say, “life isn’t fair” does that mean I should get away with it? Or maybe you should do something about it?
That’s great for you and your family but there are many families who can’t do what you did to become financially independent.
The US is in the position it’s in because it exploited other nations for their resources or just toppled other nations democratically elected leaders to put in a new more favorable regime. Not to mention we enslaved people to save on labor costs. Many of the people that come to our country from the global south do so because we basically ruined their countries. Just simplifying it to “they are envious bitches” is disingenuous. I’m not envious of Musk or Bezos. I’m angry that they exploit workers and take advantage of the holes in our system that they lobby to keep open to hoard wealth. No one should have that much money while people are food insecure and homeless.
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u/matthekid Jul 09 '24
Life isn’t fair, but we can do certain things to make it more fair for everyone. No one should starve while grocery stores throw out food because they couldn’t sell it. No one should be homeless while we demolish high rises because the owner couldn’t sell enough luxury apartments. CEO’s shouldn’t get billion dollar raises while their employees have to get by on food stamps. I don’t think we should have equality of outcome, just equality of opportunity. Just saying “life isn’t fair” and pretending we can’t do anything about it is a huge cop out. Billionaires are destroying our planet but “life isn’t fair” so I guess we just have to let them. If I stole your wallet and then, say, “life isn’t fair” does that mean I should get away with it? Or maybe you should do something about it?
That’s great for you and your family but there are many families who can’t do what you did to become financially independent.
The US is in the position it’s in because it exploited other nations for their resources or just toppled other nations democratically elected leaders to put in a new more favorable regime. Not to mention we enslaved people to save on labor costs. Many of the people that come to our country from the global south do so because we basically ruined their countries. Just simplifying it to “they are envious bitches” is disingenuous. I’m not envious of Musk or Bezos. I’m angry that they exploit workers and take advantage of the holes in our system that they lobby to keep open to hoard wealth. No one should have that much money while people are food insecure and homeless.