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My old person trait is that I think 'ghosting' is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.

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[–] doleo@lemmy.one 192 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think that a basic lifestyle should be affordable for a basic person

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 111 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found the left-wing extremist! /s

[–] riceandbeans161@discuss.tchncs.de 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i’m gonna go one further:

i think everybody should be allowed to live a decent enough life, whether they can work or not.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll go even further and say that meeting the needs of a population is the only point of having a society at all.

that almost sounds like… anticapitalist propaganda! Can’t have that! Back to your cubicle, worker #33458!

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that is an old person trait. You are just secretly Nordic.

or not so secretly, seeing as i literally live a stone’s throw from a scandinavian border

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

One further, and one better

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Crazy how that is an unpopular opinion these days

[–] EthanolParty@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

As a very basic person, I agree

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

All this automation should mean that there's less work to do for everyone's needs to be met. Not sure where all this scarcity came from.