A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important

Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by allendoerfer on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:02AM (#28059194)

People unfortunately do not really care about the absolute amount of pie they get. They only care about getting the same amount of pie the others on the table have. They are angry if someone gets more than they get. Sometimes they do not see that this person actually has baked the pie. Others might not have had a chance to have lunch before. Unless people are starving, the absolute amount of pie does not really matter to them.

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Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by mnd999 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:30AM (#28059382)

Brexit taught us people will vote for a much smaller pie if they think it will make others slices smaller and closer to theirs.

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Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by hnbad on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:29AM (#28059738)

As an outsider, a lot of conservative politics in the US only make sense if you consider that certain people are willing to burn themselves to the ground as long as they get to use those they hate most as kindling.

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Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by refurb on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:05AM (#28059996)

That same observation is made of the other side as well - a willingness to blow up a system, even if it hurts the common man, in order to get to a supposed utopia.

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Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by zo1 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:09AM (#28061184)

It taught me a whole lot of other things, but definitely not what you propose.

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