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And pull themselves up by their bootstraps as usual?

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[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 159 points 8 months ago

Imagine living in the 2020's in the developed world and not realizing that internet access is a basic necessity.

Then imagine being the sort of person who would deny poor people basic necessities

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 104 points 8 months ago
[-] skybreaker@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago

Might want to get that cough checked out. ...unless you're in America, in which case you probably couldn't afford it.

[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 35 points 8 months ago

Best I can do is an aspirin I found on the train and sleep it off.

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Sleep? What do you think this is, a spa?

Get back to work, paid sick days are just a myth perpetuated by the evil socialist europeans. Don't look it up.

[-] Kiwi@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

If you don’t come into work today you are going to put undue burden on all of your coworkers. It’s certainly not my fault for staffing to the absolute bare minimum so that there is no room for people to be sick or take days off, it’s your fault for being a lazy worker

[-] Chriswild@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Oh you're insisting you can't come in because you are sick? I'm going to need a doctor's note that will cost you a day's wages.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 45 points 8 months ago

They know full well that internet is a necessity to participate in society.

That is why they are blocking it with every fibre of their being.

To them, poor people are poor because god is angry at them. They deserve to be poor.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's not that nefarious, it's more "we're a bunch of wealthy assholes and we know the best way to make the most money without having to actually make something worth a shit is to privatize necessities and then monopolize them. You literally need to buy from me! Also, you lot don't work hard enough."

I hate these people with every fiber of my being.

[-] Syo@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

basic necessity

Did you misspell guaranteed revenue? They know exactly what they were doing.

[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Imagine living in the 2020’s in the developed world and not realizing that internet access is a basic necessity.

Then imagine being the sort of person who would deny poor people basic necessities

Standard Republican Worldview

[-] quicksand@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

My mom works with internet people. I remember when I was a kid she was making fun of them for saying internet should be a basic human right. Nowadays, it would be hard to find someone who doesn't think that lol

[-] frunch@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Trump 2024, lol

(Edit: just to clarify--if you want all that bullshit, Trump is your man 🙌)

(Edit 2: /s would apparently have been the appropriate indicator of my lack of seriousness. TIL!)

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

if only there was a way to indicate sarcasm...

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I can't believe I've done this

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