Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoYeah, those people doing the work to produce food are starving. What is your point?
Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoYeah, those people doing the work to produce food are starving. What is your point?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You’re conflating human rights with a human need as if through sheer force of ideology you can make food magically poof into existence.
In the past, million of people starved because of this way of thinking.
Sorry, but producing food requires people to do work. When you try to make something that involves work into something purely about ideology, bad things happen.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s people working 60+ hours a week and also starving. Again, what is your point?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Nobody is stopping you from donating to the food bank and volunteering your time at a soup kitchen. What’s your point?
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe, have you considered? that access to food is already decoupled from work because of ideological factors? Perhaps the idea that it is OK for people to go hungry if they’re not working is in itself an ideological posture. Just speed balling ideas here, maybe if people weren’t hungry, perhaps they will have the strength and will to work harder and more efficiently. I don’t know, it just came to me, I’m sure nobody has done any serious writing about it. We should go to the internet together and see if any of those scientists have ever done any study on that. Wild idea, maybe when people have their basic needs met they are more likely to be productive members of society. I’m sure that’s not revolutionary or anything and just common sense. Or not, I’m not a social scientist, I mean, I am, but maybe there’s something we are missing here.