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I don't want to force you to pay for them -- you're welcome to not work, and you'll live (and have the basics). If you want luxuries, then you have to work for
by SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
I don't want to force you to pay for them -- you're welcome to not work, and you'll live (and have the basics).
If you want luxuries, then you have to work for them, and that includes paying the cost of using the systems that enable you to work. You don't get to use systems to earn luxuries and expect others to pay for them.
My position is that we're very wealthy (as a society) and luxuries (or just running up the scoreboard) are pretty motivating, so we don't need to organize society in a fundamentally coercise manner, merely make luxuries more expensive.
The amount of luxury cost increase relative to the amount of coercion and suffering we could alleviate means society is better off.
I would even go so far as to say that we'll end up wealthier as a result, but that's a controversial position.