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Respectfully, aside from whether or note the tone of the piece is or is not justifiable, I think your comment misses the point, which is that there is injustice in people (or a system) who unfairly shunt work off to you that they should rightly own. The US health industrial complex is indeed a prime example.

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It's NOT injustice. That is entirely made up by the author. What agreement or law has been broken?

That’s a fair point. I would say the agreement that has been broken is an implicit social contract (in the sense of Rousseau) that people should share the burdens of society to make society function, and that individuals should do the work that would most appropriately be their responsibility.

Given that ideal hasn't been successful achieved in any society or time period in recorded human history I question getting this spooled up over yet another example of out species missing its own flex goals.

We have established ways of sharing the burdens of social life. This burden sharing is already happening. We negotiate it in real time. I personally began pushing back on certain norms of politeness at age 5. I became labeled as a troublemaker. That’s the price one pays for bucking the system. But it’s not a terrible price.

The author is unhappy with the social order, which is fine. Her error and transgression is in the misappropriation of the concept of “theft.” That is an important concept. We use it to keep order.

It’s like someone pulling a fire alarm to report that she feels really hot.

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