• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    14 hours ago

    Socialism is not fundamentally altruistic.

    Yeah, if I’m completely honest, yes I DO want everyone to be housed and fed without the stress of maybe you’ll be dead if you don’t sell your body hard enough, but the biggest reason I want socialism is because I myself want to be able to slow down and not have to work so hard to stay floating.

    That might make me a bad person, but I justify it to myself because everyone else will benefit far more from that than I will, and long after I’m dead things will (hopefully) be even better.

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      13 hours ago

      That might make me a bad person

      It doesn’t. You’re “allowed” to watch out for your oun well-being. And excessive hoarding of wealth is actually bad for you (example: does Elon Musk seem like a happy person to you?)