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I do sometimes forget... (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So you think teens spray painted the hell out of new York's subways because they put someone out of work 80 years before that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the teens spray painting subways has more to do with marginalizing an entire class of people and a failure of public services, which were largely gutted at the bequest of a few billionaires who wanted to watch their number go up. Any dollar spent that doesn't come back to them is a dollar they see as one they've lost. And the number must go ever up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Kid's vandalism has been studied and that's mostly wrong: propensity to vandalize is most strongly tied to parent-child relationships.

Sure maybe billionaires taking all the resources makes parents less likely to be there for their kids, but the gap between parents who are there and deadbeats who let the wolves do the babysitting is not someone else's fault.

Upbringing cannot be thrown away just so you can blame billionaires for why nice things aren't the norm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When did we get from a cleaning robot getting vandalized to teens spray painting subways?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I've got this big bag of random arguments. Whenever I'm cornered on one I pull another one out.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Vandalism in general, and that can be generally further into people ruining nice things, these are examples

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Two different examples about two completely different situations.

And graffiti is almost as old as writing. There is graffiti on the Great Pyramid painted by workers.