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[–] 80 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The entire point of living in a society, of following the collective social contract, is to assure everybody's basic needs are met.

To suggest otherwise is contradictory to the very core of what a society is, and at that point, its better to have no society at all.

Given how having "no society at all" is impossible with 8 billion of us around... Either provide for everybody's basic needs, or people need to break the social contract until they enforce their needs are met.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Being egoistic and wanting society to pitch in at the same time is a core tenet of the US republican party. Privatise the gains, socialise the losses is a big thing there. There are millions of people like that and unfortunately they are influencing the world-wide discourse on the issue.

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