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65 year old woman calls in and nearly breaks CSPAN host by telling her she’s slowly starving to death...
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powerstruggle sh.itjust.works powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works
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Oka sopuli.xyz Oka@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2024-06-08
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

"Why is it that poor people are always helping poor people?"

If wealth was balanced, we'd all be thriving, or maybe we'd all be surviving, but at least we would be doing it together.
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stoy lemmy.zip stoy@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-10-17
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Oka wrote:
"Why is it that poor people are always helping poor people?" If wealth was balanced, we'd all be thriving, or maybe we'd all be surviving, but at least we would be doing it together.

Why is it that poor people are always helping poor people?

Rich people tend to be on the sociopathic spectrum, that is why we have stupid dickheads like Musk saying insane things like "empathy is the fundamental weakness of western society".

While ignoring the fact that empathy is a huge strength, if not the biggest strength we have in the west.

They are too stupid to realize that while empathy makes a society bend under extreme pressure, an unempathic society would break.

The funny thing is that empathy can very well be seen as quite selfish, sure, you might help others without requesting payment, but that means that you have taught others that they should help you without payment as well.
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Diplomjodler lemmy.world Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-08
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Oka wrote:
"Why is it that poor people are always helping poor people?" If wealth was balanced, we'd all be thriving, or maybe we'd all be surviving, but at least we would be doing it together.

There is plenty of stuff to go around. Poverty is a consequence of inequality, not a shortage of resources.
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zarkanian sh.itjust.works zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-01-11
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stoy wrote:
Why is it that poor people are always helping poor people? Rich people tend to be on the sociopathic spectrum, that is why we have stupid dickheads like Musk saying insane things like "empathy is the fundamental weakness of western society". While ignoring the fact that empathy is a huge strength, if not the biggest strength we have in the west. They are too stupid to realize that while empathy...

The funny thing is that empathy can very well be seen as quite selfish, sure, you might help others without requesting payment, but that means that you have taught others that they should help you without payment as well.

The way I look at it is that I help other people because I want to live in a world where people help each other. It's a moral ecology. The person I help might never help me back. They might not even know that I helped them. However, it does reinforce that moral ecology, and it also makes me feel good.

Sure, you could frame that as "selfish", but that would be bending the definition of selfishness to the point of absurdity.
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stoy lemmy.zip stoy@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-10-17
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zarkanian wrote:
The funny thing is that empathy can very well be seen as quite selfish, sure, you might help others without requesting payment, but that means that you have taught others that they should help you without payment as well. The way I look at it is that I help other people because I want to live in a world where people help each other. It's a moral ecology. The person I help might never help me ba...

All fair points, and I'll gladly admit that I enjoy taking exploring the edges of logic and concepts
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zarkanian sh.itjust.works zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-01-11
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nearly breaks CSPAN host

LMAO. The host didn't even change her facial expression once! Is that title just for clickbait? Or are we supposed to believe that she was "nearly broken" because she's a woman?
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zarkanian sh.itjust.works zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-01-11
#8 · Quote Reply
Oka wrote:
"Why is it that poor people are always helping poor people?" If wealth was balanced, we'd all be thriving, or maybe we'd all be surviving, but at least we would be doing it together.

It's because poor people know how much it sucks to be poor.
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BarneyPiccolo lemmy.today BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-30
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zarkanian wrote:
nearly breaks CSPAN host LMAO. The host didn't even change her facial expression once! Is that title just for clickbait? Or are we supposed to believe that she was "nearly broken" because she's a woman?

Really! Not only did she not "break," she barely reacted at all.
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