That's sweet, you're so considerate

We could shave them ... sort of.

based

I have some nice tasty rat poison.

Always has been

I would love to! Just send me your ID documents and I'll open a bunch of credit card accounts and start building debt immediately.

Sounds like a weird request to me, but if that's your kink then who am I to question.

I'm all topped up on debt, don't worry.

No, only debit.

Now, of course, if you just give money away, that's no good at improving people's lives

Actually, no, I'm pretty sure there have been many studies that show that literally just giving poor people money is all it takes. This is the first one I found after 15 seconds of searching; I think you are really underestimating how difficult it is for poor people to just get necessities, or how difficult it is to get out of debt traps.

I see where you're coming from. Drug addicts, gambling addicts, etc, may not be the best demographics to just give money to. But that is not most poor people. It's a tiny fraction! Literally all we need is wealth distribution, with no need to overcomplicate things. It might not be perfect, but it would be magnitudes better than what we have now.

Edit, to be clear, I'm not saying we shouldn't fund hospitals and schools and whatnot. But it's simply not true that giving money away isn't effective.

Even if your family had tens of millions of dollars available while you were growing up, you’re many orders of magnitude closer to a minimum wage worker than to any billionaire.

If you grew up with millions of dollars, your existence is very different from people making minimum wage because you can live comfortably without much stress or need to burn yourself out working. But you and the minimum wage worker both have effectively no political power, while the few thousand billionaires in the world are really running the show - makes no difference what sort of lifestyles those billionaires are living.

I don’t believe I am better. Just very lucky in that one way

I was adopted, then abused. Like, they had to go out of their way to get a kid and then treated it like crap. Met my bio mom as an adult. She was 15, drunk, wanted to get laid at a party, and by the time she realized she was pregnant couldn’t abort. Fucking pro-lifers, I was this close to not having to deal with this shit. This close!!!!

Pretty much. Unwanted in the world, yet treated as if we owe it something in return.

i feel that in my bones.

i didn't have kids because like, growing up in this. fuck that. i care too much about them to let them live in this.

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