• Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    See, I think those people are living their best lives already. There’s no saving them because there’s nothing to save them from. But I bet they’re still improving their lives in other ways. Everyone wants better for themselves, we just don’t always agree on what better IS.

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      I agree that there is nothing to save them from. They absolutely get to choose how they want to live their lives.

      I simply disagree with the idea that they want to better themselves at all. That doesn’t match my experience, having worked with thousands of people like this.

      I wasn’t really big on UBI until I really learned about this entire subclass. They’re what sold me on the concept.

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        Again, I think they’re still working on improving their situation in their own way. They don’t WANT what we see as improvement. For us, improvement is comfort, money to live, a better home, etc. For some people, it could be achieving an altered brain state. Or reading a book. Or spending a day walking the streets. All of this would, in my view, be “trying to improve your situation” - they all make you more comfortable. They may not be long-term viable, or what the broader society may define as improvement, but that’s kinda irrelevant.

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          1 year ago

          Or reading a book.

          While I agree with you philosophically, this made me laugh out loud.