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| America's Ever-Growing Pile of Societal Deadweight |
| 2023-06-05 |
| [Culturcidal] What does make someone a "useful" member of society? That is not an easy question for a variety of reasons that go well beyond not just agreeing about the answer. In fact, in a nation as hyper-individualistic as the United States, a lot of people don’t feel like that’s an appropriate question to ask in the first place. Their answer would be some version of, "It’s not anyone’s job to be useful to the country. People don’t owe anybody anything except themselves." In other words, it’s sort of the opposite of John F. Kennedy’s famous quote: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 And I get to keep my doctor!! Oh, wait, never mind. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-06-05 11:45 |
| #9 just might reduce the rolls of Social Security recipients.... Needed to facilitate the efficacy of a 'single-payer' health system. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-06-05 11:43 |
| #8 Gee, a few jabs of the Fauci Flu vaccine and a few trips to the IC with some of Fauci's favorite juice Remdesivir just might reduce the rolls of Social Security recipients, much to the delight of the DC cognoscenti. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-06-05 11:33 |
| #7 Soylent Green is people...or maybe bugs. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2023-06-05 11:24 |
| #6 Gov Cuomo nods in agreement. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-06-05 10:39 |
| #5 ^4 or maybe Soylent Green |
| Posted by: Warthog 2023-06-05 10:06 |
| #4 I think Glenmore is expecting a Logan’s Run reboot in our future. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-06-05 10:02 |
| #3 Yes, I no longer build things for others to use. But I do spend money, supporting others. And I also maintain a lawn and a dozen trees, to do my part to remove dangerous carbon from the atmosphere. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2023-06-05 09:51 |
| #2 I believe we will learn that the ‘dead weight’ is us senior citizens. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2023-06-05 09:15 |
| #1 Much of the deadweight is in our government. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-06-05 08:26 |