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I worry that this little fellow is telling lies to discredit my irrational fears.

He probably hates me too.

This is why disabling downvotes on a site fueled by user content is a bad idea.

I could be wrong but I remember voting and they actually had it split into two questions. The first was whether you wanted to keep the current system, and the second was if no what system would you prefer. Unfortunately people just decided to stick to what they were familiar with even if it’s a flawed system.

EDIT: Double checked and yeah, it was two questions the first of which was whether the system should change or not. 61% of voters opted to keep the existing system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_electoral_reform_referendum

It’s frustrating for sure, I was even more annoyed when we had a referendum in BC and people opted to keep things the same.

What exactly makes you think that communism is going to remove people having power over other people? That seems to just be intrinsic to humans in general, your economic system isn’t going to change that.

And you can absolutely have social support systems in place if the populous pushes for them. Homeless shelters and welfare aren’t impossible ideas, they’re actively implemented across the world. The same goes for basic needs like healthcare.

Just because your government or community hasn’t implemented it doesn’t mean it’s not possible to do so. It means you need to convince those around you that it’s a good idea.

Okay - you’re just arguing something completely different at this point.

My point was just that this post proposes a solution that doesn’t actually solve anything and just makes new problems.

If you’re incapable of working then you take advantage of the social safety nets that your government or community provides.

I never said I was against having supports in place for those who are unable to work?

Depending on the desirability of the work compared to the compensation yes it seems to be working pretty well

In my home town a sanitation worker makes double the provincial minimum wage and gets benefits. That’s an incentive for a job that has a low barrier to entry but undesirable labour.

The benefit of this system is that you can in fact choose this role instead of being assigned it based on the requirements of society. If the compensation isn’t tempting enough then the employer will increase the compensation until it makes sense. That’s how it’s supposed to work at the very least.

If the current implementation isn’t working then you address the issues with the implementation, you don’t tear it all down and try something completely different.

I don’t need any sins, my knees buckle under the weight of my own body just fine.

Depends what we’re substituting those templated values for.

If a society is to function people need to be doing the work that isn’t enjoyable as well as the work that’s enjoyable.

There’s likely not enough people that get genuine enjoyment out of being a garbage man or sewer maintenance worker for a world with everyone doing what they want to work.

You have to add incentives for the less desirable labour or else the system collapses under its own weight.

They didn’t really need to specify the bf is a top when they ended the post with a keyboard smash

I don’t know if I’d even call it cringe considering it seems so self aware. Dude was just making a silly video out of a stream clip.

The real issue facing our society today is the lack of equal representation for jiggle physics for penis havers.

Only downside is the memory training times on reboots.

It’s called a Dyson Big Ball, obviously your balls weren’t big enough.

It’s been like 3 days dude, calm down.

If you look at the mod that’s hosting the poll they never even left the site. This doesn’t feel like something they’re doing for the benefit of the community, it feels like they’re doing it because they’re addicted to the platform and aren’t willing to make a community elsewhere. It just happens that they can open a poll and all the people that already left aren’t going to have a chance to say no.

Not too mention that they’re hosting it on Reddit itself, which requires an account to vote on polls. When many people already deleted their accounts.

Subreddit moderators live without having power over a group of people challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)