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[–] Ging@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 week ago

we traded uncertainty for reliability

Reliability is still a privilege for fewer and fewer imo. For many more it’s fragile, conditional, and easily stripped away by illness, layoffs, or a single bad landlord. The fact that conditions improved over a century ago doesn’t license complacency. Those gains were forced by people who refused to accept tiny, daily violences as normal. If you think we should stop pushing once life stops being medieval, ok maybe? Not really, no. Don’t pretend that’s moral clarity; it’s settling. Your ancestors may be jealous, but they'd also argue that you maybe lost the plot.