The article is actually decently well written good-faith satire meant to address how poverty and hunger are inherent to capitalism as a system. The title was just too bold lol
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I think "describing it as if it were normal" only helps the people who support this arrangement because it gets normalized. That's where the accusation of conservatism came from, that and the way they tried to shut me down with insults.
Edit: given that there are likely to be a lot of people that agree with this argument unironically, doesn't it seem irresponsible to play some game where you pretend like you support it? Without ever coming out against it at the end?
Really, it's just naked approval, with any disapproval left as an exercise to be performed by the reader.
Do you talk this way about The Onion too?
I find articles on the onion to be funny in some way. This was just naked approval of the status quo.
it is not approval of--
you know what, never mind. i don't wanna talk to you anymore.