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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • If you give someone $20, chances are that, yeah, they will spend it on some quick and cheap comfort to improve their lives in the short term (fast food, alcohol, drugs, etc.). But if you give someone a sizeable sum that will actually help them plan for a better future, the vast majority of people will do just that.

    But that really goes against the whole “poverty is the result of a moral failing” concept that capitalist throught had been hammering into our heads for decades, so we certainly can’t be promoting that fact.













  • Can we leave the karma system and awards with Reddit? Allowing voting in comment sections for pseudo-moderation by the users is good, but when it turns into a scoring system the conversation devolves into a competition to see who can craft the most palatable opinion to get the most imaginary internet points.

    Despite all my thoughtful and helpful comments I made in my 11 years on reddit, you know what my top comment was?

    • Comes in
    • Kills the Queen
    • Tanks the economy
    • Leaves

    What a legacy.

    47k updoots, and 27 awards.