• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    The people who hate it are those who think themselves better than their peers. They think they deserve more than their peers, and that socialism transfers their superior effort to the benefit of their inferiors.

    They see socialism not as everyone helping everyone, but as they, the successful being forced to support them, the lazy.

    • kelpie_is_trying@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Yes. My one note would be that it may be more to the root of it to say that they see it as the good (anything they like) having to help the bad (anything else). These sorts almost always reduce down to good/bad, me/them, clean/dirty because they (like all of us in our own ways) simply desire understanding and the surety it provides. Framing things as 0/1 is much easier to understand than actually facing the grey of reality. It’s easy to want easy. Not often good or helpful, but just so dang easy to abide by.