@lumpthought 🫶 true.... raises the question of if the burden of care should fall only on those who love the disabled or more broadly on others who don't have a firsthand personal relationship to motivate a flow of resources from those who are generating / extracting more to those who aren't
@lumpthought fwiw my feelings abt what's "fair" come from the society I would choose from the Rawlsian veil of ignorance... except that what I think I would choose is still biased by my life experience so still idk
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Repost · Aug 5, 2023RT @AskYatharth: the world has always been run on the backs of people who provide concrete care, not just loveQuote tweet · Dec 30, 2023yep, even if your ethical beliefs say everyone's needs matter, in practice the person best positioned to care for you is usually yourself…Reply · Nov 8, 2024@shinboson i think so too! the right mix of empathy for ppl's suffering & like... push for them to get it together not entrench dependencyPolitics & policyReply · Dec 17, 2023@AlexGodofsky yeahhhh sigh, this has been on my mind recently... how ppl tend to cluster, and how much better things tend to work out among high trust…