• kboos1@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    You don’t have to have a “job”, but then your “job” will be daily survival instead of paying for luxuries.

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      4 days ago

      More time/effort on survival sure (/more discomfort), though most here likely don’t have much luxury (certainly not their main reason-for/outcome-of employment) unless you’re really watering down the meaning.

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        4 days ago

        I think you’re confusing luxuries with luxury and I think you’re missing how much you take for granted. If you don’t work to earn money in some form or fashion then you are working to survive and it’s a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death.

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          4 days ago

          it’s a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death

          This is also true in the US with someone already living paycheck-to-paycheck (and the mistake doesn’t have to be their own).

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              4 days ago

              We have:

              • extremely expensive healthcare, business more important than public health
              • health insurance tied to employment, less worker protections
              • sprawl and car-dependent living, a sea of oversized trucks


              So yeah… one medical issue can add massive debt, and avoiding care or bleeding out in a non-ambulance on the way to a hospital are possibilities. Or a teacher or nurse living in their car being hit by a drunk driver. Lots of other ways to get onto a downward spiral to some death of despair.

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                4 days ago

                That doesn’t mean you’ll just die though. I mean I feel for you all over there, but all alone on the savannah is probably worse.

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                  4 days ago

                  That doesn’t mean you’ll just die though

                  Some of the things I mentioned you just might. Hypothermia or heat stroke if you’re homeless in the wrong place during winter/summer.

                  Slow death is also worse if you ask me. “It could be prevented” yeah sure, doesn’t mean it will.

                  all alone on the savannah

                  well, I may ask myself

                  David Byrne in a suit and bow tie asks: "how did i get here?"