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[–] Kynn@jlai.lu 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well since it's literaly us vs the planet (since we seem to be unable to regulate our society's consumption of finite resources), the question is : does the planet exist for us to consume it ?

The answer is no, but we'll still consume it.

Do we deserve to live ? Well outside of society, there is no reason we're deserving it more than any living being. And sometimes I clearly wonder, when some individuals contribution is a big negative legacy for the next ones, and to the planet.

Tbh I do not mean we (humans) do not deserve to live, but I clearly wouldn't want it taken for granted, cause it is not.

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[–] senorseco@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

While I agree with the sentiment I also think that it's best for society if everyone contributes while realizing that some are able to contribute more than others. Essentially no freeloaders.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago

(Oh wow. No one replied with this quote yet...)

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” ― Buckminster Fuller

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