School lunch debt, what about normal lunch debt? : memes

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 51 points 11 months ago (2 children)

At the very least, can we agree that rectangular pizza on Fridays is a basic human right?

[–] Todesschnitzel@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Corporate said No.

[–] connaisseur@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fck corporate.

[–] Todesschnitzel@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

Indeed. Fck em. Down with the capital!

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, but Taco Tuesday though... 🤔

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 26 points 11 months ago

I get free lunch at work. Absolute game-changer.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago

Because feeding people is Communism or something.

[–] IkarusHagen2@feddit.de 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You want free lunch for kids.

I want free kids for lunch.

We are not the same

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We are not the same

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

One of my local food banks has a community dinner once a month. The food isn't anything to write home about, but it's free.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 8 points 11 months ago

The food isn't anything to write about

Using that phrase in writing always tickles my funnybone with its inherent self-contradiction 😁

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Sometimes I think about how we might make a public dining hall that people would choose to eat at, rather than go as a last resort. Sort of how U.S. public housing is dumpy while some European social housing is actually desirable.

[–] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The boomers free lunch was the planet they ate up. Nah I know it's the rich I'm j/k, but why give them free anything yeah, the children yearn for them mines and meatpackers.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

but why give them free anything yeah

Maybe because they're also fucking hungry?

US: Senior hunger is a pressing issue in the United States. 5.5 million seniors (60 and up) and 3.8 million older adults (50-59) experienced food insecurity in 2021

UK: 1 in 10 (1.4 M) aged 60+ have been eating less since the start of the pandemic

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

But how else will capitalist society coerce people into wage slavery? Next up you're gonna tell me people should not be homeless either?!! What kind of dystopian society is this where everyone has food on the table?!! /s

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't know how it is in other states, but in Florida, a company called Red Apple Dining owns the cafeteria. I hate this company because not only are they providing lower quality foods for profit, they do not allow anywhere else on campus to have a kitchen besides home ec, so now students can't choose to have a better option besides bringing a cold lunch to school. The school I'm working at has an old kitchen that students would use for projects or fun and now it goes unused because of Red Apple Dining establishing anti-cooking rules. Florida education sucks.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Kids need to grow strong so they can be brainwashed into doing the bidding of the ruling class.

The elderly are too set in their own ways to be brainwashed efficiently, and too weak to get exploited efficiently anyways.

[+] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world -23 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Everyone gets free shit unless you work. Then you can pay for your own shit and everyone elses. You can pay for rich people too.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think the post is talking about retired people who can't work and sometimes don't get enough retirement money to live without worrying of paying bills or food

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

https://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/

Exactly what meals on wheels is for, but it needs more funding, to be sure.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

"Only the fittest survive" capitalism is out-of-control. Maybe we just make the meals stationary instead of cruelly forcing the elderly to chase them down?

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's great that someone is trying to help the elderly. The challenge with charity is that it's charity. If meals on wheels blinked out of existence tomorrow, no one has the right to expect a meal the day after. It would just suck more for a bunch of people. I think we need commitment to new human rights: among other things, everyone should have enough food. That's the standard. If they don't have enough food, we and that person should expect that it's addressed.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed, of course. Was just pointing out that such a thing did exist. Charities are not the most effective way to handle such issues, absolutely.

Charities absolutely rely on things like public relations and advertising campaigns to raise awareness that they exist and/or need funding. It leaves everyone at the mercy of which charity is "most popular" and if yours isn't very popular, you could see it disappear. It also means a significant portion of the budget is spent on things that don't actually address the real problem, which is hunger.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah! Like I'm glad that Charity Navigator exists because we need it in the world we live in, but people shouldn't have to do a lot of research to determine if their donation is mostly going to administrative costs.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

These people look like comfortable boomers to me, I didn’t see that

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

These people will be you and your friends enjoying your free lunch

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Possibly. I hope the money comes from someone who can easily spare it

[+] iwenthometobeafamilyman@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because when work doesn't suck, people like doing it

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You really think enough people are going to love doing septic tank maintenance and picking berries and all the other hot, painful, messy shit that people have to do to keep ourselves alive to support that? Because I don't.

Maybe when we've got amazing robots that can do all that I guess, but then we've just moved on to robot maintenance and coding. Granted more people will be ok with those tasks, but they call it work because it's WORK.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

Some people genuinely don't care about smells and such, and construction and maintenance is satisfying without being pushed to always do more with less... People do it for free all the time. Just this week, I helped my neighbor with some stuff, I like using tools and using my hands.

People literally pay to pick berries as a fun group activity. People go on wait lists for things like habitat for humanity

People like doing these activities. They don't like the conditions of a job doing these things.

Clearly, there's some middle ground - you don't need the threat of homelessness to get people to work. You can make less desirable jobs well paid, let people play with the fancy power tools, or have the jobs come with social status/privileges

Obviously it's not as simple as "hope someone volunteers" but it's clearly not some impossible to solve problem

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You're right, it's not desirable for people to be overworked or those who can work to not contribute. It's also not desirable for any of these people to go hungry:

People who want to work, but can't find jobs
People who do work but aren't paid enough to cover essentials
People who can't work
People

We've become incredibly efficient over the centuries, and we have enough for everybody to eat without overworking anyone. The issue is many people not receiving the full value of their work, while a much smaller group receive value far beyond what they contributed.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep and they’ll argue that they contributed their capital and took all the risk. I could also contribute more if I didn’t pay tax and exploit people and wasn’t exploited myself. Then I’d have more capital to take risk. I accept I have to pay tax and at least try not to exploit people - very hard in a capitalist/global economy

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But you're perfectly fine with working for imperialist wars across the globe

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

How did you get that? I literally complained that people who work have to pay for the rich. I shouldn’t be paying for anyone as long as the rich hoard their wealth. I’m happy to pay to build a better society I actually want to contribute but not while people with many orders of magnitude more wealth than me are hoarding and grifting. They pay a lower effective tax rate, money that could easily fund these programs. That being said I don’t think I interpreted the meme well, those people look like well off boomers so I wasn’t getting the poor elderly in a home who doesn’t have enough to buy bread vibes. Anyway until the wealthy stop acting like cancers on society I’m not going to be happy that I’m the one that has to pay but as long as they are not I’m happy to support the poor.

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Now I get you, I agree

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

If you actually believed this, you wouldn't work. You don't really believe it, though.

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