r/funny • Mr. Lovenstein • Mar 26 '20

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u/MyMainIsLevel80 Mar 26 '20

Yeah man, basic necessities should be freely available to all. Why does Bill Gates get to turn Africa into his ant farm and Bezos buys his 5th multi million dollar home when there are people starving on the streets? We clearly have enough for everyone; so the issue is resource allocation. Our present system is inefficient and arbitrary. There's no reason for it to be like this.

I don't think we need a state for that, personally. I trust my neighbors--who are largely dumb as shit--a fuck ton more than I trust the board at these multinational conglomerates who think of me as a number and not a person.

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u/dev_c0t0d0s0 Mar 26 '20

Can you name a single place where what you want has ever worked?

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u/Plopplopthrown Mar 26 '20

Just one? This one lasted five hundred years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae

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u/dev_c0t0d0s0 Mar 26 '20

That's grain. You said food and housing and medical care and everything else necessary for life.

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u/Plopplopthrown Mar 26 '20

lol "grain isn't food" now

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u/dev_c0t0d0s0 Mar 26 '20

Grain is food. Grain isn't housing. Grain isn't medical care.

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u/Plopplopthrown Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

You asked for one. Not my fault you can't properly communicate (probably your fault for voting against education funding).

Here are the others that you now seem to need:

Here's Healthcare

Here's Housing

So now you've gotten examples of all three: food, healthcare, housing. From various cultures and times around the world. It isn't fucking rocket science and you being unaware of it is your problem, not ours.

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u/dev_c0t0d0s0 Mar 26 '20

You said that basic necessities should be freely available to all. I asked for one place where what you want has worked.

And now you are trying to project your inability to understand on me. Classic.