• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It still blows my mind that some people cannot comprehend that not everything needs an exchange of currency in some way shape or form.

    “They don’t do anything in return?” “They don’t get worse!” “But who compensates the people who help them?” “We do.” “But then who compensates us?”

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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      2 hours ago

      Like do these people realize that if we give people the means to not just survive, but thrive, in our society which rapidly approaches post-scarcity (I’d argue we’d basically be there if we had better distribution of wealth) then they would have no reason to steal or kill? I mean except for the worst cases, but ya know… if everyone except for the truly evil has no reason or desire to do crime then…

      Just saying imagine a world where police actually fought bad guys and just let social workers handled the wayward sheep, the downtrodden, and the desperate?