• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I don’t get what the leg is in this metaphor. Anyone has an example?

    (I also don’t get what the crutch is, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, so I’ll think about that once I figured out what the leg is.)

    • orc girly@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      I think it’s our health, people are frequently overworked and underpaid and when our bodies break most of the time we need to pay for care

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      5 days ago

      The means of production they have stolen. And common ownership of the land

      Uncle Karl goes into this in exhaustive detail.