alt Hacker News> A job today isn’t (and shouldn’t be) any guarantee of a job tomorrow.
Also relationships, kids and stability. Spend all your life in perpetual anxiety, rent all your life, you will own nothing and be happy! Also, here’s a bowl of insect protein while we’re at it.
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sneak • yesterday at 5:34 PM
You can quit your relationships at any time, too. That's a fundamental tenet of our society - consent to an interaction between free people can be withdrawn at any moment for any reason.
That's not perpetual anxiety - that's the way things work today, and the way things have worked for generations. Anyone pretending otherwise is fooling themselves with lies.
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You want the government to force employers to provide a social safety net rather than the government providing it directly?
The problem isn't that people can be fired, it's that their food, housing, and medical care are all dependent on or provided through their employer.