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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Okay, sounds good. But then I don't want to see you begging for food, shelter, healthcare, transportation, cell phones, internet, or anything else provided by people who work. If you don't want to engage in this system of commerce, by all means, you do you. But if you aren't trading your labor to buy goods from other people who are laboring, you don't just get to have all your needs met for free.

Go live off the land, build your own shelter, grow/hunt your own food, and treat your own wounds. I wish you luck. I'd rather keep working and paying for a much better range of goods than you could ever scavenge or build on your own.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I live in an EU country, I don't work and I receive welfare, which pays for food and rent.

Life is good.

You need to realize that it's machines and cheap energy who feed people, it's not labor. Machines do 95% of the work, because they are just much more efficient, so it's not really needed to make everyone work, and that's why there are so much working in fast food, sales, hotlines, taxi drivers, etc.

So go ahead, go work, but understand that work is no obligatory, we live in civilization, which means there is no reason people should starve and die because they don't work: there is enough food and shelter for everyone. I guess your taxes are somehow paying for my lifestyle.

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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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