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  • Honestly this part of the XKCD meme never sat right with me. No self respecting emacs person would ever bind a command to C-x M-c

    Meta after Ctrl rubs me the same way languages that use Subject Object Verb order do.

    Like, you can do it, but it feels icky.

    Also, you’ve gone to the trouble of creating a ‘butterfly’ key. Just use that.




  • I’d argue we’re already there. Once you hit zero it’s not like you zip out of existence. When everyone is poor and has no money, the rich get to hire you and pay you enough to buy their products and keep them comfortable. You’ll never make enough to get out of poverty because it’s designed to keep you there.

    Poverty isn’t just about not having money, it’s about never making enough to get out of poverty. When you’re always living paycheck to paycheck, payday loan to payday loan - you’re screwed. The system will never let you out. You’re too profitable in that state to let out.

    Think of the boot theory. If I only give you 10 bucks a year, you have to buy the 2 dollar boots every year that last only a year. The moment you made 11 dollars, you could buy the 5 dollar boot that lasts you a decade. The system incentivizes company’s to sell 2 dollar boots cause it makes them more money in the long run, and if the entire world agrees to never pay you more than 10 dollars a year, every company can make that much more money. That’s why your market value is not your fair pay.

    The real reason poverty exists is because rich people need a slave class without being directly liable for owning them.





  • Why should only the minorities that excel deserve a good life?

    Why do the mediocre majority get to live a good life while the mediocre minority don’t?

    Let people be mediocre and instead we need to make life better for everyone.

    I fairly certain you’re a troll, it’s patently obvious on a site like lemmy. Heck I’m even confident you’re going to respond to this because I used a magic keyword, I won’t. This is meant for the normal people reading this