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.
Huh? I wasn’t responding to them. I was responding to you.
“No such thing as a free lunch” isn’t a judgement on whether someone should get to eat or not. Of course everyone should get to eat. Or maybe nobody deserves to eat if you’re a sadist who wants everyone to suffer. That’s irrelevant. No such thing as a free lunch just means there’s a cost behind everything (not even always economic costs). The cost for everyone getting food without having to pay for it is everyone who works paying more taxes, or some other spending being cut. You’re only changing who pays for the lunch, it doesn’t become free.
And the saying isn’t even about lunch or money, it’s usually metaphorical. E.g if you want to spend more time playing video games as an adult, your lunch (video games) is probably “paid for” by sleeping less. Is that a worthy tradeoff? Up to you, no such thing as a free lunch doesn’t decide that for you.
In the most literal sense of the saying, though, it just means that someone treating you to lunch or anything else that has a cost to them, usually has something they want in return. Maybe it’s a favour, maybe they’re trying to sell you something. If it’s the government giving you free lunch then what they want is your vote and for you to be a more motivated worker so that you can pay more tax.
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
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.
That just means increased taxation. Still no free lunch.
Embarrassing that you didn’t read @maya_s_trojan@piefed.blahaj.zone comment before commenting this
Huh? I wasn’t responding to them. I was responding to you.
“No such thing as a free lunch” isn’t a judgement on whether someone should get to eat or not. Of course everyone should get to eat. Or maybe nobody deserves to eat if you’re a sadist who wants everyone to suffer. That’s irrelevant. No such thing as a free lunch just means there’s a cost behind everything (not even always economic costs). The cost for everyone getting food without having to pay for it is everyone who works paying more taxes, or some other spending being cut. You’re only changing who pays for the lunch, it doesn’t become free.
And the saying isn’t even about lunch or money, it’s usually metaphorical. E.g if you want to spend more time playing video games as an adult, your lunch (video games) is probably “paid for” by sleeping less. Is that a worthy tradeoff? Up to you, no such thing as a free lunch doesn’t decide that for you.
In the most literal sense of the saying, though, it just means that someone treating you to lunch or anything else that has a cost to them, usually has something they want in return. Maybe it’s a favour, maybe they’re trying to sell you something. If it’s the government giving you free lunch then what they want is your vote and for you to be a more motivated worker so that you can pay more tax.
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