Yeah I feel we have too adversarial of a mindset. Or maybe “too independent” like so independent that we don’t even consider how we are all connected and only have a society because we work together.
It leads to people saying really silly phrases line “self made millionaire” which ignores all the people that gave that person money.
Like money is inherently social. You can’t do anything with it on your own.
bisby@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Things in favor of Peyton here:
Things against Peyton:
When poor people get a windfall of money, they tend to spend it all. It’s why lottery winners tend to wind up broke. Because historically, money is a “use it or lose it” for those people. If you’ve been trained your whole life to adapt to things, it can be hard to do the right thing when those things no longer hold true.
Americans cant have decent public services because they abuse them… results in Americans desperate for public services… which results in Americans taking extra advantage of any public service that is available… which results in a mindset that Americans abuse public services… which results in less funding… Its a vicious cycle.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Yeah we Americans are a condemnable lot but I don’t think “kid exploits loophole to buy comical amount of soda” is really an example of that, he’s just a kid doing a bit. If this was a public service the solution would be analogous to saying “you have to be able to hold the container in one hand” or something. There’s always going to be people pushing the rules but they’re usually the exception not the rule.
bisby@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
If this were an actual public service, the solution would be to make sure people’s needs were met so they didn’t feel obligated to take comical amounts of soda.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Some people prefer flat soda, my son among them. I still feel like he’s just being contrarian/messing with me, but he still insists he’s sincere.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I still like flattish soda, but as a kid I preferred totally flat soda because the prickling hurt more.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Your son is a smart son. Interestingly, myself and several other family members prefer flat sodas. It’s too bad yours doesn’t seem to be inherited.