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minus-squarePhlubbaDubba@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up58arrow-down1·5 months agoWasn’t JFKs speech supposed to be about not seeing a community only for what you get out of it?
minus-squareAllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up74arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoDo you understand how offensive that concept is to a market capitalist? They don’t even want to fund public schools, and they get a pre-literate workforce out of that. “Whats in it for me” would be our national slogan, if it wasn’t already “fuck you whether or not I got mine.”
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoThat might be what the speech meant in context, but the quote alone sounds like something Animal Farm’s Napoleon would say to Boxer.
Wasn’t JFKs speech supposed to be about not seeing a community only for what you get out of it?
Do you understand how offensive that concept is to a market capitalist?
They don’t even want to fund public schools, and they get a pre-literate workforce out of that.
“Whats in it for me” would be our national slogan, if it wasn’t already “fuck you whether or not I got mine.”
That might be what the speech meant in context, but the quote alone sounds like something Animal Farm’s Napoleon would say to Boxer.