njordomir@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIf a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time?message-squaremessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down139
arrow-up1152arrow-down1message-squareIf a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time?njordomir@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square144fedilink
minus-squarewhoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·2 months agoMaybe they weren’t expecting a bunch of pedantic responses? lmao
minus-squareSteve@communick.newslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoMaybe. But you and I don’t know that. You’re guessing their meaning, rather than accepting their words as written. You’re trying to mind read, rather than word read.
minus-squarewhoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoI’m applying “context” and “media literacy”, you’re being pedantic.
minus-squareSteve@communick.newslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoThat’s another way of saying the same thing. Roughly. Seems we agree on the facts, and simply value them differently.
Maybe they weren’t expecting a bunch of pedantic responses? lmao
Maybe. But you and I don’t know that.
You’re guessing their meaning, rather than accepting their words as written.
You’re trying to mind read, rather than word read.
I’m applying “context” and “media literacy”, you’re being pedantic.
That’s another way of saying the same thing. Roughly.
Seems we agree on the facts, and simply value them differently.