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My old person trait is that I think 'ghosting' is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.

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[–] [email protected] 225 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think that a basic lifestyle should be affordable for a basic person

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found the left-wing extremist! /s

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i’m gonna go one further:

i think everybody should be allowed to live a decent enough life, whether they can work or not.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll go even further and say that meeting the needs of a population is the only point of having a society at all.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that almost sounds like… anticapitalist propaganda! Can’t have that! Back to your cubicle, worker #33458!

[–] EmpathicVagrant 1 points 1 year ago

33458 registered with mental disorder

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that is an old person trait. You are just secretly Nordic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

or not so secretly, seeing as i literally live a stone’s throw from a scandinavian border

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

One further, and one better

[–] kernelle 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy how that is an unpopular opinion these days

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a very basic person, I agree

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 1 year ago

The concept that all employed people deserve a living wage is only unpopular among employers and landlords.

[–] HowManyNimons 4 points 1 year ago

All this automation should mean that there's less work to do for everyone's needs to be met. Not sure where all this scarcity came from.