Who’s going to provide your food, shelter and clothing if no one is working?
Yes, if you want to live in a society, you must contribute. Even if you live in a village with no government or economic system, people have to haul water, catch fish, grow crops, make charcoal, weave baskets, 1,000 other jobs.
And to care for the people too elderly or disabled to care for themselves, you must work harder than merely providing for yourself.
Oh, were you thinking rich people could just give us money? Where do you think they get that money? Hint: It comes from our labor, which you propose shouldn’t exist.
If you don’t like any of that, go homestead. Dick Proenneke left for Alaska in his 50s, single-handedly built a nice cabin and lived there alone for 30 years.
Ol’ Dick didn’t have a filthy job, unless you count survival. If a middle-aged man can do it with 60s tech and gumption, so can you!
Who’s going to provide your food, shelter and clothing if no one is working?
It’s amazing humans were able to build civilization without anyone providing food, shelter, or clothing. We’re so lucky we evolved on a planet full of microwave TV dinners and polyester pant suits and ranch homes with durable vinyl siding.
They did all that by solving problems. As any gamer knows, solving problems is not necessarily work.
They weren’t forced to be somewhere, at some time, to complete a task dictated to them by someone else, with no say in how it’s done or when it’s done, or any reward for figuring out how get the same result automatically, under threat of not being able to feed, house, or clothe themselves.
And I’d have a lot less of a problem with all of this if they’d let me feed, house, and clothe myself without needing to own property.
Don’t forget the magical machines we found to shitpost! I found mine in a creek, all natural PC and software to go with it.
Free internet too! OK, there were some guys to lay the cable line, and admin the network, and handle customer service, and pull permits so we’re not living in anarchy, and… I can’t go on.
It’s a miracle! No one worked to provide any of this! And if they did, I’m sure they loved every moment of it.
Signed: Guy who broke his ass bringing y’all the first cable internet installs and updated software for Y2K so you can laugh about it being no big deal.
Who’s going to provide your food, shelter and clothing if no one is working?
Yes, if you want to live in a society, you must contribute. Even if you live in a village with no government or economic system, people have to haul water, catch fish, grow crops, make charcoal, weave baskets, 1,000 other jobs.
And to care for the people too elderly or disabled to care for themselves, you must work harder than merely providing for yourself.
Oh, were you thinking rich people could just give us money? Where do you think they get that money? Hint: It comes from our labor, which you propose shouldn’t exist.
If you don’t like any of that, go homestead. Dick Proenneke left for Alaska in his 50s, single-handedly built a nice cabin and lived there alone for 30 years.
Ol’ Dick didn’t have a filthy job, unless you count survival. If a middle-aged man can do it with 60s tech and gumption, so can you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke
It’s amazing humans were able to build civilization without anyone providing food, shelter, or clothing. We’re so lucky we evolved on a planet full of microwave TV dinners and polyester pant suits and ranch homes with durable vinyl siding.
That’s the plan.
They did all that by completing jobs. Explain how to do all that with no one working as was the request.
They did all that by solving problems. As any gamer knows, solving problems is not necessarily work.
They weren’t forced to be somewhere, at some time, to complete a task dictated to them by someone else, with no say in how it’s done or when it’s done, or any reward for figuring out how get the same result automatically, under threat of not being able to feed, house, or clothe themselves.
And I’d have a lot less of a problem with all of this if they’d let me feed, house, and clothe myself without needing to own property.
Don’t forget the magical machines we found to shitpost! I found mine in a creek, all natural PC and software to go with it.
Free internet too! OK, there were some guys to lay the cable line, and admin the network, and handle customer service, and pull permits so we’re not living in anarchy, and… I can’t go on.
It’s a miracle! No one worked to provide any of this! And if they did, I’m sure they loved every moment of it.
Signed: Guy who broke his ass bringing y’all the first cable internet installs and updated software for Y2K so you can laugh about it being no big deal.
Given enough time nerds would have invented the internet just to argue with each other, with or without financial compensation