What a strange and pretentious comment.
replyThey're not mutually exclusive, two things can be had at the same time.
Not only are they mutually exclusive, the current neoliberal regime has dismantling the welfare state as its explicit goal.
replyWish to live in your reality tho, where I can buy a dozen different brands of hot dogs while visiting the doctor for elevated blood pressure without needing to take out a payment plan on klarna.
Jokes on you, in my part of Europe I don’t have access to public healthcare, I don’t have mandated vacation, I don’t have a pension system. And I can’t even have a consumerist phase apparently since car parts are so hard to acquire.
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