• AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    The message is that you deserve nothing and must earn everything, not that there isn’t enough to go around.

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      10 months ago

      That’s not the message either. There are homeless shelters, mental and health services, and affordable housing being priotized all over.

      Necessities are in large free to those who need them. Nice to haves and luxury beds are not.

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        10 months ago

        There are homeless shelters, mental and health services, and affordable housing being priotized all over.

        But not in sufficient quantity to address need. Demand fsr, far outstrips supply.

        “Free” is irrelevant when it’s unavailable.

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      10 months ago

      Well you dont deserve anything that someone else has made…

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        10 months ago

        Actually, in a socialist utopia, yes you would. And everyone else would be entitled to the thing you made too. And every pricetag would be based on the labor spent in making the item rather than inflated to satisfy the profits of some corporation that doesn’t add value to the product being sold.

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          10 months ago

          That sounds like a communist utopia you’re thinking of, not socialist.

          And ignores that it’s not that “everything is free”, it’s that everything is owned by everyone, the same way everyone “pays” for the police - but they don’t work for you, they work for everyone / the state.