• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    These kinds of lessons always go better if you don’t choose something like food in the example.

    It’s a lot easier to teach someone that their labor has value, than to teach someone that other people deserve to starve if they don’t have enough dollars.

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      22 days ago

      Because letting people starve when there’s plenty of food is morally reprehensible, and even children understand that’s a horrible way to design a society.

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      22 days ago

      But that would be teaching them evil socialism, not good capitalism.

      Food? Water? Shelter? Acceptance? All commodities. Can’t afford them kiddo? Fuck off from our civilized society™

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      22 days ago

      I like to use water and then oxygen. At first they really want the water. But then very quickly they really want the oxygen instead.