TugboatChamp t1_j8pnsrz wrote on February 16, 2023 at 1:22 AM

Reply to comment by Yathosse in [OC] Lately Reddit made me feel down and I just had to figure out why, data gathered over 3 days, 263 posts scrolled through and each one analyzed how it made me actually feel. RESULTS: 35% positive 23% neutral 42% negative posts. by NecrisRO

This take is so childish and economically illiterate it's difficult to know where to begin. Do you take issue with the fact that parents are the party primarily responsible for providing for their children? Or do you resent the fact that valuable things have value?

Yathosse t1_j8pqeuw wrote on February 16, 2023 at 1:42 AM

I do take issue with this but luckily where i live cafeteria food in schools is heavily subsidized and provided for free if you are poor. And yes, i do think a society should not let someone starve merely because they are too poor to afford food and i‘m lucky that‘s not how it works here

TugboatChamp t1_j8ptbyl wrote on February 16, 2023 at 2:04 AM

Well we agree on that. In the US school food is heavily subsidized and provided for free if poor. And a kid using some ambition and hard work towards a charitable end is exactly the definition of society not letting someone starve. Although no one starved in the story, nor was there any real danger of that even if this commendable kid hadn't decided to help. So in summary, you get upset when you read a story that perfectly illustrates the type of society you desire to live in? Or does individual motivation and charity bother you instead of it being handled by a cold, inefficient bureaucracy thereby absolving and demotivating individuals to ever elect to act charitably or selflessly? Or possibly it bothers you that there are parents that are so selfish they would shirk their basic responsibilities to provide for their children's basic care? If the latter, then yes, I would agree is disheartening.