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Related: the idea that everyone needs to work all the time isn't really true anymore. If we were in like 3000 bce in a small farming village outside Ur, yeah, people gotta pitch in so we don't get eaten by wildlife, the neighboring tribe, or whatever.
But in 2025ce, where so many jobs have so much filler nonsense? And when the rich can just live on investment income? No, the whole "work or starve" thing isn't needed anymore.
We should have basic income for all and public housing. Let people pursue what they want. Maybe it's art. Maybe they just want to take care of the local library. Maybe they just want to be a local barfly that keeps the tavern interesting. Who knows? But wage slavery needs to go.
Man that's bullshit and you know it. Yeah a rich class is not exactly directly subject to work or starve, but people who write stuff like this don't realize they are in that rich class. I guarantee you've never met or heard of anyone starving ain't an anorexic or lost in the barrens. There has to be people doing the actual work, and people like you doing what amounts to fancy book keeping and service industries for the next class of people it's very plain you're envious of.
I'm not sure I follow. What do you think is bullshit?
Someone still needs to do work, but not everyone needs to work all the time.
Amazing how much trouble people have with a clear statement.