This is how I feel whenever someone says "we ought to have a UBI... below the poverty level." The entire world has been stolen from us and we deserve 100% of that surplus back.

Money has diminishing marginal utility, and we live in a profoundly unequal economy. That means the overwhelming majority of our resources are being wasted. With today's technology we should be living large.

The original poster's "elites" in this case are bribing for macroeconomic policy that encourages subscriptions. Buying your Whatever on credit didn't make sense until they started punishing us for saving money to buy the Whatever. Consumers or retailers don't just want to replace sales with rentals - they're responding to an incentive.

You do have something to lose. Your car, your home, your supper. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck. This is bad because we're more vulnerable than if we had savings. This is so it will be harder for us to successfully strike.

It's easy to forget that sadly most people do no support actually doing anything about it at all. Either they'd rather believe it's OK, or they'd rather believe that we're nearly winning.

It's a good combination of the power button and the do nothing whatsoever button.

And here I thought I was doing a great job masking with small talk.

Me: Question A

Them: Ah you must really mean Question B. Here's your answer.

Me: OK but Question A

Them: Ooh, you're really grilling me now. Relax.

Hey can I borrow money from you once

"To accommodate the pacifists, simply don't tell them what militaries do."

Unlike those shrewd religious majorities

The further the muzzle is from my ears, the lower the noise level I'll experience. The projectile speed doesn't matter.

Hair on your feet is better because then you'll get less hearing damage.