• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    i have a friend who was doing a twitch fundraiser, right? it was a fundraiser for a good cause. i DO fundraisers for a living. So i pop on, say hi, she doesn’t recognize me, i drop in 50 bucks because fundraiser and i could afford to tighten the belt that month. like, this is a normal donation in the charity world. She Did Not Tell Me that she was eating a slice of lemon for every dollar that was donated. Oh My Gods i have never felt so guilty for doing a fundraiser i tried to stop her. I had no idea this was a huge donation for twitch.

    honestly, i still feel kinda guilty and it’s been years.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Scalpers aren’t really living off the hospitality of others, they’re taking advantage of illiquidity to create arbitrage and fuck over regular people.

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          2 months ago

          They’re the only actual parasites in that list, the rest just provide a service people pay for. Which is closer to the parasitus class described in the OP.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Roman society is pretty much the basis for the western world. The Romans are largely the reason for the rampant patriarchy we have today among other things, for instance.

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        2 months ago

        I totally agree - didn’t they invent the word?

        But yeah, reading about the patriarchal structure in Roman society was like…

        Because there’s a clear cut path from what they set up back then to where we are today. Thanks, Romans.