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Homeless family traveling in hopes of receiving unemployment relief, Great Depression, USA, 1939
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And right wingers would call them freeloaders and tell them to get a job
They had nowhere to go, how are they going to get a job and there are many other factors why someone cannot work
Also fuck capitalism, we should be free to live our lives and not be slaves to the capitalist system
I wonder how things were going in the USSR at this point in history. Surely everyone always had enough to eat and enjoyed freedom of movement.
Stalin was rubbing his hands together excitedly, about to send people into the meat grinder.
You are free to live you life. Are there armed guards preventing you entering the forest and living off birds you kill with your hands and sleeping on pine needles? Be my guest.
Or do you mean "we should be free to have farmers work for my food, and have 20 people come build me a house, all for free"?
Well, yes, actually. Not without reason, but literally, yes. Typically some combination of public property, private property, and wildlife/safety regulations stop that from being a long-term solution. Depending on how far away from society you go, you can escape scrutiny for a time, but you'll never be safe from the threat of the cops rolling in and destroying whatever you have and dragging you out for trespassing or violating public land ordinances.
Plenty of hermits say otherwise.
Wow you suck
No, I work, because stuff costs labor.
The people in this picture worked too, then the system collapsed due to rampant financial speculation and they were made destitute. Along with hundreds and thousands of others. People literally starved to death during this time.
If your response to the idea that perhaps things could be better for the people who work and contribute labour for your stuff is "well if you don't like it, go live in the wilderness", you suck.
Go farming. Grow your own food. Build your own house. Vote for a government that provides social services. Forage. Barter. Get a different job.
There's like a thousand solutions.
Sorry, just go farming and build your own house? Do you think those things don't have significant upfront costs that would be a barrier to people in precarious conditions?
This is not a serious argument, it's completely detached from the actual barriers people face in reality
Really, those things have cost? Seriously? No way!
Next thing you're going to tell me is that the people who already incurred in those costs (farmers, construction workers) want to earn money to cover those costs and their labor!!
What a scandal!
you seem to lack critical thinking. This type of anecdotal "wisdom" you've adopted merely allows you to dismiss the true nuances of undertaking anything you've commented. You know more often than not, things are more complicated than a casual glance would suggest.
Yes, it's super complicated "people expect compensation for labor". It's PhD stuff.
me
you
moron, confirmed
*your
see how I can change something when I see I'm wrong?
Try that out
I do
Don't care
It's obvious you're a right winger
Lol, even a fast peruse of my comment history will show you that even for European standards I'm quite progressive.
Which might be why I demand fair compensation for hard working laborers, no matter what online edgelords think they are entitled to.