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Does anyone ever pay attention to common words/phrases that are "secretly" horrifying? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Maybe it's because I'm obsessive about words and enjoy overthinking things, but I do this a lot with common words and phrases that we use. The one that horrified me today was the phrase "cost of living". It's right in front of our faces that it literally costs money to remain alive. Did we know this already? Of course! But the fact that it's so deeply woven into every aspect of our lives and people don't even pay attention to what's coming out of their mouths is wild to me. Wild, and wildly upsetting.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Tax burden" gets me. Sure is a burden to have public services that improve the world you live in, right?!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not when everything is so infested with neoliberal ideology that nothing can be understood outside of atomized so called rational actors existing in a market.