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Maybe that high school dropout is wasting his life away because he sees no means of being successful. I think you'll find that most people who prefer to stay a
by loewenskind 16y ago
Maybe that high school dropout is wasting his life away because he sees no means of being successful.
I think you'll find that most people who prefer to stay at home and mooch off the system do so because to make their life just slightly better would require them to seriously bust their asses. That means their effective compensation would be very low (maybe zero or even negative in some cases).
We have and have had societies in the past where everyone got equal compensation. Do you think those societies allowed loafers to goof off all day and contribute nothing?
- InclinedPlane 16y agoWe have and have had societies in the past where everyone got equal compensation. Do you think those societies allowed loafers to goof off all day and contribute nothing? That's not better. If someone wants to be lazy, put in the minimum effort, and spend the rest of their time playing games that's their choice and they shouldn't be punished for it by forcing them to contribute to society to "earn" what they've been forced to receive. That cure is far, far worse than the disease.
- loewenskind 16y agoI'm just saying loafers isn't a deal breaker. Past societies dealt with it by not allowing it. If we ever realize a future utopia we could probably live with a small percentage of the population spending their whole life doing nothing but gaming. But it is my strong (completely unprovable without actually trying it) suspicion that many people who game their lives away actually would rather be doing something else (e.g. working in a space station), they just don't feel they have the option.