• Photuris@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    People don’t “want to work.” They want money. It’s just that working is the easiest way for most people to get that.

    Well, thanks Captain Obvious. Statements like that are technically true, but how helpful are they for contributing to a conversation?

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      People don’t “want to work.”

      I don’t think that’s true, but I suppose then we’d have a debate over what “work” is.

      Statements like that are technically true, but how helpful are they for contributing to a conversation?

      Well, we were having a discussion about renting vs. owning which you seemed to understand were two different things.