Comments by "SciFi Realism" (@scifirealism5943) on "Watch Kamala Spew Equity-Equality Word Salad!" video.

  1. I had to rely on welfare/Medicaid because higher education doesn't offer adequate health insurance. But because welfare isn't an unconditional cash transfer, I couldn't use my health insurance to take care of my sick mom. She was sick for six years, on oxygen, from 2017-2023. She ultimately passed away. The stress from this caused me to flunk out of school, lose financial aid, and not get it back despite the financial aid office knowing what happened to my sick mom. Screw this POS country.
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  2. Exactly
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  3.  @Theo_Phage  yep
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  4. Everyone is not capable of working harder or at all. Everyone cannot overcome all systemic problems.
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  5. Rich people receive trillions of dollars of tax cuts they didn't earn or work for, on top of having received trillions of dollars of inheritance they also didn't earn or work for. But they don't need to experience deprivation and hardship in order to be motivated to work, but poor people do?
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  6. Ok
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  7.  @lizard944  I got a full tuition scholarship since then.
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  8.  @lizard944  I feel bad both for the poor and middle class
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  9.  @lizard944  thanks. I hate YouTube filters
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  10.  @lizard944  thank you!
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  11. Star Trek society is a communist and equal society. Albeit they have matter replicators to eliminate scarcity
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  12. I'm too poor to finish Community College, much less University. I hope I win a full ride scholarship.
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  13.  @RealYRM  life is not equal and never will be. It neither possible nor desirable to equalize society. That is the truth that meritocracy wants to hide. Because the implication is people do NOT get what they earn, because nobody can truly earn anything, not without help.
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  14.  @RealYRM  that's survivorship bias you believe in. I propose several policies that would eliminate poverty and create a less unequal society, which is my ideal society: Living wage, robust welfare, universal/unconditional basic income, free higher education, and massive income redistribution. My goals would be to ensure lower end jobs are done without poverty, not with it, and to help those unable to work or are exploited by corporations.
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  15. Meritocracy is a myth because there is no objective measure of merit, so there is no way to determine if your society is meritocratic or not
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  16. Yep
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  17. That right there is the problem - everyone works. It's just that you aren't paid based on how hard you work. I worked very hard as a cashier but only made $10.50/hour.
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  18. Why shouldn't college be free? College costs a lot precisely to keep out poor people.
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  19.  @scathachmuirisc7149  yep
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  20. Exactly.
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  21. Because meritocracy Is a myth
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  22. Yep​ @chrispery9002 
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  23. Nobody
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  24. It's a double standard to expect the poor to experience deprivation and hardship in order to work harder but rich people don't need it.​ @michaelg8067 
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