Some things arent about perspective.

  • gray@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    Yes, and adults should get free lunch at work. Non working adults should get lunch too. End the “no such thing as a free lunch” paradigm /serious

    • cosmos8188@leminal.space
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      6 hours ago

      That is true, everyone should be entitled to a meal - especially within the place of work or education. Ideally, this sort of thing shouldn’t be limited by if the person is a child, teenager or adult.

  • Maya S. Trojan@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Another perspective:

    It shouldn’t even be referred to as “free” because it allows the implication that they’re getting something for nothing.

    “Kids should have nutritious food available to them at school” removes this idea implied by capitalism where we are ascribing it a value instead of display of humanity and an understanding that healthy, well-educated citizens benefits everyone.

    Capitalism has poisoned the well of the language with which we speak of our issues.

    Further, it was never “free” it was a cost seen as being worth being paid for the benefits it brought that wildly outweighed the cost of doing it to begin with.

    The idea that a society must work together for the benefit of all was never a United States value system, and the country only played like they cared during certain periods to prevent popular uprisings.

    • Broadfern@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Yeah this shit should already be well bought and paid for with our taxes, and the idea that it’s not is worth being pissed off about.

      Stop using my money to bomb kids and start using it to fuckin feed them 🤬

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
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      23 hours ago

      Speaking of something as free inherently devalues it and reduces it to the financial burden anyway. Not much capitalistic bias there.

      Having healthy meals at a cafeteria and eliminating food poverty is different to free school meals for American cefetria style sloppy joes qualify for the latter. And you reduce the benefit to being to poor people explicitly

      School lunches for all vould also be a better phrasing for it.