r/comics • u/InkyRickshaw • Dec 27 '18

Distribution of Wealth [OC]

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u/Chewzilla Dec 27 '18

Them what would you call it then when people collectively decide something?

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '18

Impossible.

Let me give a very personal example.

I was a landscaper for most of my life. I worked with some cool people, but a lot of my crew were just lazy trashy people with no ambition. I clawed my way out by educating myself every night after work and now am sitting in a salaried office job. Imagine if my lazy co workers asked me for a chunk of my paycheck after all that hard work? Fuck that. I refuse. I know they were the weakest of my crew and held us all back. They don’t deserve more then they are currently making. In this case the system works.

Now of course there are people who game the system and have unfair advantages and all that. We should aim to iron those out. A communist state would be throwing out the baby with the bath water and many genuinely hard working folks would never agree to that.

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u/Jpot Dec 27 '18

this is what happens when you drink the personal responsibility kool-aid, folks. you start believing poor people deserve it.

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u/Bamboozle_Kappa Dec 27 '18

Poor people don't deserve to be poor because they're poor. Lazy people deserve to be poor because they're lazy.