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0 pointshombre_fatal3y ago0 comments

You’d think with his attitude he made the game rather than just write a poem (which he was paid $20k for).

This is like my babysitter observing some windfall in my life and, despite my transaction with them already paid at the rate they negotiated, expecting me to share more with them while using language like “I was a cornerstone of his family but that apparently wasn’t enough” because they watched DVDs with my kid.

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intrepidhero3y ago

There are cultures in the world where the babysitter would expect to share in your windfall and everyone would think it a perfectly reasonable thing. Also, neighbors and extended family. This transactional, one and done sort of thinking that makes perfect sense in the capitalistic west, is not a mathematical, universal truth.

spritefs3y ago

> There are cultures in the world where the babysitter would expect to share in your windfall and everyone would think it a perfectly reasonable thing.

Which cultures do you have in mind?

intrepidhero3y ago

I'm thinking of personal experience in sub-Saharan Africa. But really, most cultures are less individualistic then the west and have different ideas about the obligations of individuals to the group.

I'm not saying one way or the other is right or wrong and that's the point. What's right is "obvious" in one culture and may well be outright wrong in another. Our ideas here should be challenged and tested and not merely accepted.

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0 pointshombre_fatal3y ago0 comments

You’d think with his attitude he made the game rather than just write a poem (which he was paid $20k for).

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intrepidhero3y ago

spritefs3y ago

> There are cultures in the world where the babysitter would expect to share in your windfall and everyone would think it a perfectly reasonable thing.

Which cultures do you have in mind?

intrepidhero3y ago

I'm thinking of personal experience in sub-Saharan Africa. But really, most cultures are less individualistic then the west and have different ideas about the obligations of individuals to the group.

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