• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    The idea that you need to earn a living implies you dont deserve to live.

    Meanwhile the rich are thinking “The idea that you need to earn a living implies you do deserve to live,” and drawing quite a different conclusion.

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        2 months ago

        Hes saying that from rich peoples perspectives, we dont create anything of value and therefore there is little we could do to “earn a living”

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        2 months ago

        The rich think that if they can’t use our labour to make them richer, we are useless and don’t deserve to live. They value ordinary people only as “human resources”.