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Is it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by Camzing to c/asklemmy

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It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It seems that where we differ is they yes, I do think that employee providing shitty service deserves a living wage. But more importantly, there's so much that people do for us that should be paid but isn't, or that isn't paid enough to live off of but should be. People who volunteer their time to clean up public spaces, to help take care of the sick and elderly or young children, people producing art for the rest of us to enjoy, people doing doing fundamental research on topics that aren't currently trendy, and likely many more that aren't coming to mind right now.

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