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[–] 39 points 4 months ago (8 children)

You don't have to have a "job", but then your "job" will be daily survival instead of paying for luxuries.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

    More time/effort on survival sure (/more discomfort), though most here likely don't have much luxury (certainly not their main reason-for/outcome-of employment) unless you're really watering down the meaning.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I think you're confusing luxuries with luxury and I think you're missing how much you take for granted. If you don't work to earn money in some form or fashion then you are working to survive and it's a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    it’s a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death

    This is also true in the US with someone already living paycheck-to-paycheck (and the mistake doesn't have to be their own).

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    That's why they use guns to fire people over there! /s

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    We have:

    • extremely expensive healthcare, business more important than public health
    • health insurance tied to employment, less worker protections
    • sprawl and car-dependent living, a sea of oversized trucks


    So yeah... one medical issue can add massive debt, and avoiding care or bleeding out in a non-ambulance on the way to a hospital are possibilities. Or a teacher or nurse living in their car being hit by a drunk driver. Lots of other ways to get onto a downward spiral to some death of despair.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That doesn't mean you'll just die though. I mean I feel for you all over there, but all alone on the savannah is probably worse.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    That doesn’t mean you’ll just die though

    Some of the things I mentioned you just might. Hypothermia or heat stroke if you're homeless in the wrong place during winter/summer.

    Slow death is also worse if you ask me. "It could be prevented" yeah sure, doesn't mean it will.

    all alone on the savannah

    well, I may ask myselfDavid Byrne in a suit and bow tie asks: "how did i get here?"

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