• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Even if we pandered to your every preference, I doubt it would satiate the greed of someone who’d rather see children punished than contribute fractions of a penny to prevent it.

    So why make society worse if it won’t even make you better?

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        1 year ago

        They’re not my children, why should I as a taxpayer have to pay for them?

        Because they are your fellow citizens.

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        1 year ago

        You already know the answer to that but you asked the question anyway because it serves as self-entitled neoliberal/libertarian propaganda.

        And of course if there was an actual city out there modelled after your libertarian paradise, there’s not a chance you’d move there, let alone be happier there.

        But boy would I love to see it.

        Because no matter how much of your personality you devote to being a miser, your actual, actual wealth is a piss puddle next to an ocean.

        You’d be a functional slave with every dollar you earned being immediately extracted from you as you’re charged by the foot for the roads you use, living off post-FDA Starbucks that you don’t know has baby-killing levels of formaldehyde in it (again) because the one media company left was paid to not report it.

        But hey, at least you wouldn’t be paying 1c a year for someone else’s birth control.