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> Having a job is the cost of living in society. In other words, we are born into debt and must work all our lives to pay off that debt. This is true in so man
by rad88 10y ago
> Having a job is the cost of living in society.
In other words, we are born into debt and must work all our lives to pay off that debt. This is true in so many ways, and makes what we're talking about amount to at best a kind of bonded child labor.
You don't have to think of it as slavery, but it's very very far from COMPLETELY OPTIONAL. There is no deserted island to live on!! There are no guarantees of universal housing, or healthcare, or much else that is needed to survive. Until there are, working vs. not working can never be a real choice. The working class by definition must work in order to live.
- kkoomi 10y agoOne could potentially find an uninhabited island with soil and water among the islands in the world, like 1 out of the 5000 uninhabited ones in the Philippine archipelago. One could even hide out in a remote location on land in a random large country, like Russia. It might take some work, but it seems possible to me.
- rad88 10y agoSuch a trip costs money. To secure the legal right to inhabit the island, to make the trip, and to bring enough supplies to survive. A person either needs to use his parent's cash or to work for a number of years and save before leaving. The "choice" isn't available to him until that happens, so either his parents must work to purchase their child's freedom, or he must work to purchase it himself. In either case this is one of the very definitions of slavery.