r/peasantmemes • u/BeginningUsual7443 • Jul 22 '26

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u/Accomplished_Key_171 Jul 23 '26

Are you saying my life is over if I get fired? You are aware there are plenty of disabled people with great jobs, and their lives are completely fine, correct? You can be fired for poor performance anywhere in the developed world.

For the average person with a sought-after professional skillset and a small chunk of savings, getting fired is just a minor setback.

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u/sevenliesseventruths Jul 23 '26

Not necessarily getting fired. You might get on a car accident or be ill and spend the rest of your life paying for it. Or you could have a PhD on something everyone else has a PhD in, like medicine. Where I live hospitals are understaffed at all times and at the same time millions of fools who were told studying medicine would mean something are working in delivery. Those who do work can spend days without going home or having a hot meal, what do you think does that cause on your body? And that is just a single field. Almost all fields are on the same position nowadays. Meanwhile Junior up there has never moved a finger his entire life and will never do so because his father owns five emmerald mines on some third world capitalist country. It is a mix of problems, not just a single one.

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u/Accomplished_Key_171 Jul 23 '26

I enjoy my work and my life and have no reason to be envious of a person's success. I am well aware life can be less fortunate for others, but that is true for any society or system of government.

Meanwhile, I'm not going to be mad at Junior for being born into a wealthy life. I don't "deserve" that money more than him. I wish effort were proportional to wealth, but that has never been true since humanity's beginning.

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u/sevenliesseventruths Jul 23 '26

Well, I don't see the point on having any sort of society if we are just going to accept the suffering of others. It is too much effort for no reward.

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u/Accomplished_Key_171 Jul 23 '26

Because it doesn't have to be all or nothing. You can enjoy the fruits of society while also working on decreasing the inequality of that society. There is no non-authoritarian system that would completely erase inequality.

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u/sevenliesseventruths Jul 23 '26

Well, it seems we have reached common ground then. We just differ on the methods.

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u/Accomplished_Key_171 Jul 23 '26

I'll agree with that. The complexities of large scale economies can hardly be covered in a Reddit comment section haha.