🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Feb 5

Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?

In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.

Show threadJuniper, hinge shortage
@alice so many people are concerned about fairness in the sense of not letting someone else get more than they "deserve" that they don't look at fairness in the sense of ensuring that everybody has enough.
Feb 5 at 2:28amWeb
Show threadJacquelineFeb 5

@eruonna @alice

Except for billionaires. Billionaires all deserve their yachts, their teenage sex slaves, etc

Show threadJackMexFeb 5

@burnoutqueen @eruonna @alice

And a kick on the balls.

Show threadPiperFeb 5
@eruonna The idea that basic food and shelter are things that people can "not deserve" is deeply troubling to me.
Show threadsport of sacred spherical cowsFeb 5

@eruonna @alice

George Lakoff, Moral Politics.

Show threadgkrnoursFeb 5

@alice @eruonna yes, that.

if we give a hundred bucks to everyone everymonth, that's life changing to the many people living paycheck to paycheck or being jobless while billionaire wouldn't notice it.

if the same hundred bucks was mean tested, it would be more expensive because of the need to mean test, many people who are within the criteria wouldn't get it and billionaire would still not notice it.

well landlord would notice but the jack the price up regardless anyway