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Its not clear if he ever works but often forever travellers dont contribute their fair share to society. Everyone else is working to pay their own bills, pay ta

by rb808 7y ago

Its not clear if he ever works but often forever travellers dont contribute their fair share to society. Everyone else is working to pay their own bills, pay taxes and help society. Some though are retiring early and living off investments or welfare. If he was disabled or old I wouldn't mind so much, but a healthy young educated person shouldn't be able to live off others.

larkeith 7y ago
He contributes code and operates a store, while using very few of the amenities taxes pay for. How does that count as "living off others"?
mlevental 7y ago
>but a healthy young educated person shouldn't be able to live off others. this is so petty. to what extent is he living off of others? he lives in a mangey boat that he paid for. once in a while maybe he gets some medical care (though i doubt it's much because he's young). does every single penny that a person's life costs need to be reckoned and reconciled? do you know how much falls through the cracks for all of us because of frictions? how much you sometimes overpay for your fair share but also how much you underpay? it's insane to begrudge someone this kind of asceticism based on some kind of weird puritanical collectivism - despite what Arthur Jensen would have you believe the world is not yet a business (and neither is life).
barbecue_sauce 7y ago
Very few working people of any profession are actually helping society.
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jodrellblank 7y ago
but a healthy young educated person shouldn't be able to live off others. I suppose you'd lock him up and .. no, prisoners live off the taxpayer. You'd kick him out of the country so he could make his own way, say, nomadic on a boat with no income? No, you don't like that. Enslave him and take his economic output? Kill him? What are you wanting to do, or wanting to be done to him, in this situation, to satisfy you?

by rb808 7y ago

larkeith 7y ago

He contributes code and operates a store, while using very few of the amenities taxes pay for. How does that count as "living off others"?

mlevental 7y ago

>but a healthy young educated person shouldn't be able to live off others. this is so petty. to what extent is he living off of others? he lives in a mangey boat that he paid for. once in a while maybe he gets some medical care (though i doubt it's much because he's young). does every single penny that a person's life costs need to be reckoned and reconciled? do you know how much falls through the cracks for all of us because of frictions? how much you sometimes overpay for your fair share but also how much you underpay? it's insane to begrudge someone this kind of asceticism based on some kind of weird puritanical collectivism - despite what Arthur Jensen would have you believe the world is not yet a business (and neither is life).

barbecue_sauce 7y ago

Very few working people of any profession are actually helping society.

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jodrellblank 7y ago

but a healthy young educated person shouldn't be able to live off others. I suppose you'd lock him up and .. no, prisoners live off the taxpayer. You'd kick him out of the country so he could make his own way, say, nomadic on a boat with no income? No, you don't like that. Enslave him and take his economic output? Kill him? What are you wanting to do, or wanting to be done to him, in this situation, to satisfy you?