[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Everyone is susceptible to social adaptation. Like how some people from poor backgrounds become classist once they've made it and have golf buddies to talk to about real estate. The real test of a person's principles is if they're willing to go against their peers opinions. It can be very isolating.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I don't have anything against OF or sex work, but I've always though that negative judgements against clients suggest a negative judgement against the service provider. If the act of providing the service is OK then surely the act of receiving the service is also morally sound? Unless the service provider has a morally ambivalent attitude to their own work? I say this as someone who had a long term partner doing sex work. Contempt for clients seems unfair and possibly hypocritical. Just people trying to satisfy a biological and emotional need.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Because he crept into their houses at night and wrecked up the place.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I remember going to a doof in gippsland in 2010 (noise poison) and cops were searching cars on the way in (unusual for the party size) because another doof at the same site 2 weeks prior had a violent incident that was blamed on GHB. It had a bad reputation amongst people I knew at doofs.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The media used to refer to it as grievous bodily harm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ZFEhBPS9E

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

I don't think you can generalise white collar jobs that way. I've done both, and writing software all day takes way more out of me than when I did manual labour. But some white collar jobs don't require much effort at all. I wish it was easier to balance using your brain and your body for work.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

The key thing to recognise here is that we're not talking about high income earners. We're talking about people who are wealthy due to owning massive amounts of assets which generate passive wealth, and they acquire that wealth because they belong to wealthy families. They don't contribute to the dynamism of the economy. These people don't earn money from working, they suck up all the money from the productive workers. If you're grinding it out and earning 200K that's fine, more power to you. Those people aren't the people I'm talking about.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

"government funded services tend to lead to monopoly" I don't think you understand the concept of monopoly lol. We are talking about a service provided by the government, not a privately owned service subsidized by the government.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Look, I'm not going to argue with you on this anymore since you seem to be fairly dead set on this idea of private industry and market forces being superior, which they are demonstrably not. The overarching point is that basic human needs like health care, aged care etc. should not have a profit incentive. The only way to remedy that is to invest properly in government services and also hold the political class to account when those services are not adequately delivered.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

Dude, the last 30 years in Australia have proved that private industry does not handle public services better than the government. Since you do not live in Australia, you cannot claim to be as informed on this as a local. I wish Americans would stop chiming in on the state of Australia as though they are experts. Your country has the worst healthcare system in the developed world.

[-] goodthanks@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Taxation is not theft if the money is spent properly on services that benefit tax payers. Poor taxation policy is theft, since public service quality will diminish over time. Like what we are currently seeing with lack of investment in public services, combined with an asset owning class that doesn't pay tax on its passive wealth, using that wealth to purchase more assets, which drives up prices and shrinks the middle class. If these people had better critical thinking they would rebel against that instead.

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