Actually feudalism doesn’t have much of anything to do with state capitalism… Not sure why everyone’s so smug itt. The answer doesn’t address the question at all.

Not rotten, just bad tasting. You have to taste it.

A handful of ultra-rich people would lose a little bit of power and their entire social structure would collapse. That country won’t open back up without tremendous suffering, especially as long as the rich people in power stay rich and powerful by keeping things the way they are.

Similar to everywhere else.

In the US it depends on how good the call blocking is on your service.

When I encounter teenagers who use reddit I tell them to look up “subreddit of the year 2008” just to gross them out.

In the US those tax breaks only benefit people who itemize which almost no workers do (they use standard deduction).

Not him, but feudalism wasn’t a state sponsored system in the modern sense. There was no bureaucratic, state-funded army or police force enforcing property rights. Each Lord maintained their own. Also, private property didn’t really exist. Land was held in a feif. Feudal institutions were set up to maintain feudal obligations and social order based on land tenure and status or whatever, not to protect private property or markets.

Vic-20 here. What a time to be alive.

Give me a banana and lettuce pls. But those “quality” ingredients are only sold to people who can afford them.

Double SNAP on produce has been in effect in many places for many years. Food insecurity has a lot to do with the availability of fresh food, the cost of storing it, the time it takes to prepare it, variability, waste, and calories-per-dollar nowadays.

If you’re defining compassion as believing everyone has the same human rights then I’ve got loads of it. The problem with the folks you’re talking about is that they don’t believe the same. Whether or not they deserve what they get or get what they deserve is out of scope for my definition of compassion.

What compassion would you like to see?

Ok, this is where we have a disconnect. Do you know how many translators, pop idols, and artists who sell their work at any kind of price there are? It’s not many. Look up how much the average author gets paid for their first book at a publishing house and you’ll see why pretty much all writers teach. You can be really good at STEM and make more than a teacher in your field, but the same isn’t true at all for arts, foreign languages, writing, phys ed… Even history and social studies.

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Art? Language? Music? Physical Education?

So don’t use one. Happy father’s day.

When someone comes up with something like this, I transport the phrase back to the 80s where people said the exact same thing about home computers. “if a computer was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved (in) your face by every product. People would just use it.” Ok great but a computer turned out to be something everyone wanted or needed which is why computers were built into everything by the turn of the 90s, famously leading to the Y2k bug.

Then I transport the phrase back to the mid 90s where people said the exact same thing about the internet. By the end of the 90s, the internet provided the backbone communications structures for telecommunications, emergency management, banking, education, and was built into every possible product. Ten years later people got smartphones and literally couldn’t put them down.

So you picked the local stat that makes your case instead of the 98% effective against unplanned pregnancy when used as directed cited by the World Health Organization and everyone else on the planet. What your NHS statistic proves is that without sex education, condoms are less effective. What does that not apply to?

Happy father’s day.

Based on what?

No sane person should leave something that important to the sole responsibility of someone else no matter who they are.

Eta: Until I turned 30, everyone I knew who had kids was “on birth control”